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From a longlist of 12, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on May 23.

The musician and former EastEnders star’s debut novel is due out this winter.

The story of Dora, an ageing writer, is told in observant fragments that form a ‘punishing self-portrait’

Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award, just nine months being after being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized.

On August 12, 2022, the news of Booker-winner Salman Rushdie being brutally stabbed during an event at the Chautauqua Institute in New York shocked everyone. The attack was so severe that the author lost vision in one eye. And now, nine months after the brutal attack, Rushdie made his first…

The novel tells the story of a fallen 1980s pop star who has lost everything

Salman Rushdie has made an emotional and unexpected return to public life, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award

Balli Kaur Jaswal’s latest novel ‘Now You See Us’

Updated charging documents say a Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and was later arrested for killing him had made changes to her husband’s life insurance years before when she is accused of fatally poisoning him

To borrow one of the show’s parodic lines: please sir, could we have some less

An exam board has apologised after pupils said the hundred-year difference was fundamental to understanding the question