Investigation led to many prominent figures being arrested for online rumour-mongering

Tom McCarthy’s ‘Satin Island’ is the highlight of a varied and intriguing selection

Books nominated by public libraries for consideration include 142 novels

The Tasmanian’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about Australian POWs doomed to build the Burma Death Railway, is the first great work to win the Booker since 2001

Word for Word

Writers are never certain, says the novelist, but winning the Man Booker Prize gave him the confidence to radically depart from his trusted style for his latest novel, ‘J’

From Jane Eyre’s madwoman in the attic to Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and Francie in The Butcher Boy, madness is a recurring and compelling theme in literature

Damon Galgut’s new novel could easily be yet another work of lightly fictionalised biography, yet it is far more than that

‘The Spinning Heart’ nets novelist £10,000 prize

Brian Boyd and Emma Somers root through a bumper crop of TV, film and music to find gift ideas for the loved one who thinks they’ve seen it all

‘The Luminaries’ trumps Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Testament of Mary’, his third nomination

A sprawling narrative from the 19th-century has taken the last Booker prize of its kind

Although The Voyage, by Murray Bail, failed to make even the longlist, this is an exciting selection

Irish writer makes Man Booker shortlist again as McCann and Ryan lose out

Donal Ryan, Colm Tóibín and Colum McCann hope to be among six nominees

Jim Crace’s ‘Harvest’ hard to beat despite interesting list

Author Ed O’Loughlin invites readers to bid for immortalisation as undead flesh-eaters

Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist was an international bestseller and is about to hit the big screen, starring Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland and Riz Ahmed. His new novel is called How To Get Rich In Rising Asia. Is it really a self-help book? Or is it a 21st-century Great Gatsby?