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As the Booker prize-winning author prepares to publish his final novel at 80, we assess his finest work

Memoir merges with fiction as the author reflects on failed love, ageing and the end of life in this last instalment to his writing career

Letters: Readers respond to the Guardian’s special on assisted dying

Rafael Nadal returns to action at the Brisbane International, seeking relief from the grief of his injuries and a chance to make one last dance.

Kannada writer Vivek Shanbhag's 2015 novel Ghachar Ghochar transformed Indian literary scene, shifting power away from English-language writers to fiction in translation. His latest, Sakina's Kiss, is another powerful work. The novel is narrated by Venkat, a mid-level executive whose life is defined by mediocrity. When a group of menacing…

The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago

The veteran Sunday Times critic’s survey of 50 years of British fiction rattles through titles, authors and genres, but often at the expense of insight

A “blazing, once-in-a-generation talent”, Martin Amis “provoked, inspired and outraged readers ... across a literary career that set off like a rocket, and went on to dazzle, streak and burn for almost 50 years”, said Boyd Tonkin in The Guardian.

Martin Amis, the acclaimed British author best known for “Money,” “London Fields” and a dozen other novels of flash, style and substance, who was also a fixture of the London literary scene, has died at age 73.