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Douglas Stuart and Marlon James lead the Booker Prize longlist

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The Independent UK

Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout are among Booker Prize semifinalists

Booker Prize winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running for the 2026 edition of the prestigious fiction award

The Independent UK

The Booker Prize longlist 2026: Full list of 13 books nominated and where to buy them

The long-awaited Booker Dozen has finally been announced – here’s what the novels are about, and where you can buy them

Evening Standard

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Previous winners Douglas Stuart and Marlon James lead Booker prize longlist

Chair of judges Mary Beard said each of the 13 books in contention for the £50,000 award ‘takes the reader to new places’

The Guardian - UK

This Booker longlist may have two previous winners, but it’s keen to experiment

Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout may be names we know, but there’s a welcome element of absurdism and surrealist thought here

The Guardian - UK

Booker Prize longlist 2026: Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout lead nominees

The 13 books selected for the longlist features authors representing England, Ireland, Scotland, Jamaica, Mexico, Turkey and America

The Independent UK

‘Infused with the fire born of resistance’: the magic of the Calabash literary festival

Marlon James, Ian McEwan and Sheryl Lee Ralph lit up the Jamaican book event, celebrating the small island’s gargantuan cultural footprint with readings, discussions and DJs

The Guardian - UK

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The week in TV: Get Millie Black; With Love, Meghan; A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story; Towards Zero – review

Tamara Lawrance excels in Marlon James’s classy Caribbean crime drama; the Duchess of Sussex tilts at lifestyle greatness; and a moving drama puts the case for Ruth Ellis. Plus, murder most racy in the BBC’s new Agatha Christie

The Guardian - UK

Marlon James on why Kingston is Jamaica’s beating cultural heart

Whether it’s parties, patties or patois, this Caribbean capital is a non-stop celebration, says the Booker Prize-winning author

Evening Standard

Jamaica’s past and present laid bare in Marlon James’s superb crime thriller Get Millie Black

4/5 Tamara Lawrance stars in a drama that brings a novelist’s scope and ambition to a well-worn format

The Independent UK

Get Millie Black review – every bit as great as a Caribbean True Detective

Booker prize winner Marlon James’s Jamaica-set short story has become a clever, unsettling crime drama that’s packed with excellent performances. At points, it’s five-star TV

The Guardian - UK

Who’s who in Get Millie Black – from Tamara Lawrance to Joe Dempsie

The show has been written by Booker Prize winning author Marlon James

Evening Standard

TV tonight: Tamara Lawrance is an ace detective in a Jamaica-set thriller

Get Millie Black is an action-packed story by Booker prize-winner Marlon James. Plus, Lucy Boynton stars in a dark true crime drama. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Get Millie Black: Tamara Lawrance is astonishing in Marlon James’s exemplary Jamaican detective show

With this grisly yet witty thriller, Lawrance’s Millie instantly joins the ranks of greatest ever TV cops

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‘It changed my life’: Get Millie Black, the thrilling Caribbean crime drama shaking up TV

Booker prize winner Marlon James is breaking into television with his rave-reviewed cop show. Its creator and star talk wigs, unfinished business – and what it’s really like being queer in Jamaica today

Tom’s Guide

How to watch 'Get Millie Black' online from anywhere – stream Jamaica detective series now, U.K. release date

Tamara Lawrance stars in Marlon James's 5-part drama. Here's how to watch "Get Millie Black" online from anywhere.

The Conversation

15 literary podcasts to make you laugh, learn and join conversations about books

In his “memoir of the craft”, On Writing, Stephen King lauds books as “a uniquely portable magic”. Among the world’s estimated 5 million podcasts, those devoted to books and reading are so plentiful that I’m tempted to call them the next best thing.

Evening Standard

Best fantasy books for adults: Top novels to read from Impossible Creatures to Jonathan Strange

Whether re-reading childhood classics or discovering contemporary masterpieces, let’s escape the real world for a moment or two

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The Guardian - UK

Rory Stewart, Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James announced for Hay festival 2024

The UK literary festival unveils 29 taster events next year and plans to focus on ‘global themes and the impact of issues on the world’

WEKU

Debut novel 'The God of Good Looks' adds to growing canon of Caribbean literature

A growing number of high-profile novels are coming out of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. And the region has long been punching above its weight on the international literary scene.

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Lady MacBethad; Inshallah United; Moon Witch, Spider King – reviews

A distinctive reimagining of dark Scottish history; a thoughtful celebration of faith and football; and the second novel in Marlon James’s immense Dark Star trilogy

Newsroom.co.nz

In praise of middlebrow women's fiction

Catherine Robertson on novels women want to read (and write)

France 24

Booker Prize winner Marlon James on writing the 'African Game of Thrones'

Salmon Rushdie described him as "one of the most important voices of his literary generation" and "an author who must be read". Booker Prize winner Marlon James speaks to Eve Jackson about his trilogy dubbed the "African Game of Thrones". The first book of the epic fantasy series the Dark…

The Guardian - UK

Best podcasts of the week: The true story behind the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia

In this week’s newsletter: The shocking murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, with input from the writer’s son – and the man who confessed to her killing. Plus: five of the best podcasts for book-lovers

Bristol Post

Reaction as JK Rowling missed from Queen's Platinum Jubilee author list

Dr Liam Fox says brands omission as "disgraceful and cowardly"

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