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With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation UK, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. In 2024, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it comes to recommending fiction. From Samantha Harvey’s spellbinding Booker winner Orbital to…

THE COUNTDOWN: Our chief books critic Martin Chilton chooses his very best reads of the year, from state-of-the-nation novels to surprising memoirs

The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn – is the title to put your money on

From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on November 12.

Letters: 'Where are people going to be housed?'

Quarry Farm is a historic property in Elmira, New York. It's associated with the renowned author Samuel L. Clemens—better known as Mark Twain. The farm was where Twain and his family spent over 20 summers and where he wrote many of his most famous works, including ''The Adventures of Tom…

This accidental prose poem is an apparently sacred address to group of young soldiers, which makes blisteringly clear what is being asked of God

Shortlist for the prestigious literary prize features the largest number of women it its 55-year history

As the Guardian’s fiction editor, I’ve been writing about the Booker prize for years. Now, as a judge, I’ve seen behind the curtain