Booker Prize

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

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

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