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The best new books released in April, as selected by avid readers and critics

Our favourite new reads include a playful anti-thriller, the latest from a Booker winner, and a book that questions if we can still enjoy the art of bad people.

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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Percival Everett, Ling Ma among winners of $175,000 prizes

Percival Everett and Ling Ma, already two of the year’s most honored writers, are among eight winners of the lucrative Windham-Campbell Prize

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Booker shortlistee and UK playwright among winners of Windham-Campbell prizes

Recognising work in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, the $175,000 awards aim to free writers to work without financial pressures

The Guardian - UK

Dr No by Percival Everett review – serious comedy

A maths professor meets a would-be Bond villain in a metaphysical caper through race and history from the author of The Trees

The Guardian - UK

Dr No by Percival Everett review – something out of nothing

Narrated by a mathematician, the American author’s antic shaggy dog story may disappoint fans of last year’s The Trees, but he knows exactly what he is doing

The Guardian - UK

'Dr. No' is a delightfully escapist romp and an incisive sendup of espionage fiction

Pulitzer and Booker Prize finalist Percival Everett just won another prestigious award, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, for his newest book in which he makes a myriad of compelling creative choices.

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10 great books to read during Black History Month

These titles are great to read this month — and any month. Every month.

Tribune News Service

Arts and letters academy votes in Everett, Coppola, others

The honors keep coming in for fiction writer-poet Percival Everett

The Independent UK

Percival Everett, Ling Ma among nominees for critics prizes

Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George Balanchine and J

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The best books of 2022 for your summer reading list

From a book that "everyone should read" and another that'll "take your breath away" plus oodles of historical fiction — these are our favourite reads of 2022.

ABC News

Review: 'Dr. No,' by Percival Everett

FICTION: A witty, possibly insane billionaire is out for revenge in the latest satire from this Pulitzer finalist.

Tribune News Service

On my radar: Derek Owusu’s cultural highlights

The poet and novelist on Chuck Klosterman’s take on the 90s, time-travel as a never-ending party and how Beyoncé helped him embrace albums

The Guardian - UK

Camilla brings sister to Booker Prize ceremony and meets Dua Lipa

Camilla was wearing a black lace cocktail dress by Fiona Clare at the event in London.

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How to win the Booker prize: is there a formula for ‘the finest in fiction’?

They say that everyone has a book in them. But how about a Booker prize? That’s probably what the six shortlisted authors of the Booker prize 2022 will be wondering as they count down the days to the live-streamed awards ceremony.

The Guardian - UK

‘The story had been stirring in me for most of my life’: How I wrote a Booker-shortlisted novel

NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Alan Garner and others reveal the inspiration for the books up for this year’s award

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The Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: a reading guide

A blistering critique of White America, a devastating novella set in Ireland, and a Zimbabwean Animal Farm for the 21st century are among the novels vying for the prestigious literary award.

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Morning Digest | India gets its first intra-nasal COVID vaccine; Sri Lanka beats India by 6 wickets in Asia Cup Super 4 clash, and more

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The Independent UK

US authors Strout, Everett among Booker Prize finalists

American authors Elizabeth Strout and Percival Everett are up against writers from Britain, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka as finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction

The Guardian - UK

Booker prize: Alan Garner becomes oldest author to be shortlisted

Only British writer on list will collect prize on 88th birthday if successful, but is up against five other books judges say ‘speak powerfully about important things’

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve no idea how we’ll pick a winner’: the challenge of a spectacular Booker shortlist

From a surreal African kingdom to a Sri Lankan afterlife, via murder, morality, grief and healing … One of this year’s prize judges assesses the six finalists they must choose between

The Independent UK

Booker Prize 2022 shortlist features oldest author

This year’s six shortlisted books have been revealed.

The Guardian - UK

The Trees by Percival Everett review – potent satire of US racism

This Booker-longlisted investigation of gruesome murders in Mississippi addresses a deep political issue through page-turning comic horror

The Guardian - UK

Percival Everett: ‘I’d love to write a novel everyone hated’

The American novelist on his stereotyping of white characters, the breadth of the black experience in modern literature, and why he always returns to The Way of All Flesh

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