British writer Samantha Harvey on winning of the Booker Prize for Orbital, taking Earth for granted, coping with insomnia and her Irish connections
‘A book about a wounded world’ set on International Space Station is one of the shortest to win £50,000 award
Have your say on which of the six novels on the shortlist should emerge victorious
A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says. You have to do your own thing
Thompson’s new book, The Forest Yet to Come, is part of the Wolfstongue saga, which began as a direct response to his son’s difficulty with speech
Two women, each with their own traumatic past, are thrown together in this persuasive debut novel
Writer won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for The Vegetarian
The simplicity of the sentences in the Booker shortlisted novel brings to mind an unpolished stone
Normal People author’s title sold almost 12,000 copies in first five days on market
‘Literary recognition is often still reserved for men’ observes judge Sara Collins as record number of women make six-strong shortlist
The US author, whose new novel Creation Lake is longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, on US politics, the war in Gaza and her love of Ireland
Paige Reynolds argues women tend to adopt apparently realist modes of fiction but that experimentalism still creeps in
She had asked me several times over the years to do a follow-up to The Spinning Heart
Prolific British-Turkish author on her latest novel, colonial archaeology, the plight of the Yazidis, her sense of belonging and the complexity of Turkish culture
The judges called Mayo writer’s Wild Houses ‘a propulsive, darkly comic account of misadventure in a small Irish town’
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
Prof Shovlin said, ‘Five years feels something like maturity for the prize and we were delighted to see, once again, a very strong field’
Fictional summer feasts set against cyber warfare and leaks, Greek island tragedy, a Dorset country retreat, Foxrock domestic noir, and the world of guns and Scotland’s shabby rich
Humourless narrator is difficult to root for in this novel set in Fife, Scotland
Irish author says he wonders what kind of writer he will be when his ‘feet touch the ground’
Maggie Nelson delves into the work and minds of other artists to create a deft and polyphonic book with multiple themes
Sunjeev Sahota’s tale of a trade union is politically charged but shifting narrative voice is a flaw
Paul McGinley pitches up in Ballsbridge; BBC Northern Ireland journalists get good gigs; Sharon Horgan enjoys literary success; and Fianna Fail decides to run new and not so new names
This novel is vintage Nicholls and shows that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step
Three socially conscious and moral storylines are interwoven with mixed results in Choice by Neel Mukherjee
There is humour and humanity in this recasting of Mark Twain’s flawed classic
Unusually varied list also includes Jonathan Escoffery’s debut, If I Survive You
Nominated books include Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare and The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
Anne Enright, Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan in running for £30,000 fiction award
Rónán Hession reviews a selection that includes an impressive work by International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospidinov
When the author’s previous novel was released in 2021 it sold 40,000 copies in just five days
From cinema and theatre to television, folk music and literature, Ireland is enjoying unprecedented creative boom
Sebastian Barry, Joseph O’Connor, Claire Kilroy and Emma Donoghue up for €100,000 prize
Ireland has borne witness to one of the most significant periods in its modern literary history, a winning-streak that shows no sign of abating
Irish author on prizes, translations and being the second Laureate of Irish Fiction
Tragicomic family saga secures top prize on top of Novel of the Year award
Before being shortlisted for the prize, Lynch’s book sold 2,643 copies. Last weekend that figure rose to 8,095
Irish Booker Prize winner reflects on his success, his writing roots and surviving cancer
Irish author’s fifth novel, set in an Ireland descending into chaos, is awarded £50,000 prize
Tragedy struck in the early 1970s, when her only son, Charles, who had just turned 11, was killed by a drunken driver
It’s a nailbiting time for readers. Five Irish authors have won the Booker since it began in 1969
Possession, which won the Booker Prize, was among her many critically acclaimed novels
Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Irish booksellers on the real difference the prestigious award makes as two Irish writers hit shortlist
Sarah Bernstein, Jonathan Escoffery, Paul Harding and Chetna Maroo also in for £50,000 award
John Connolly lures readers back to Elsewhere in inverse tale of mother maintaining a vigil beside her daughter’s beside
Presenting runners with a tribute to Yeats featuring a line he almost certainly never said is an embarrassing travesty for a city that prides itself on its literary heritage
Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray give selection of readings in city centre
The whole endeavour starts to feel uncannily like a mirroring meta-novel, albeit a cracked one; The French Lieutenant’s Woman, but weirder
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
Latest novel from the Booker winner explores family dynamics with wit and empathy
Booker Prize 2023: Irish author is celebrating being cancer-free as well as being longlisted for Prophet Song
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
To explore the success of Irish artists without mentioning Haughey is like staging Hamlet without the prince
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
