Booker Prize
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Edmund de Waal on this year's Booker Prize shortlist
The Week Recommends The chair of judges details works by Rachel Kushner, Percival Everett and others
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Female authors light up the Booker Prize shortlist
The Week Recommends This year’s writers have tackled wide-ranging subjects from espionage to space travel
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The chillingly plausible authoritarianism of 'Prophet Song'
The Week Recommends This Booker Prize winner shows how democracy can crumble from within
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Irish literary success: what's behind Emerald Isle's 'golden age' of writing?
Talking Points From Sally Rooney to Paul Lynch, Irish writers have dominated the English-language literary scene in recent years
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‘The Booker Prize went to the safe choice’
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Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and minor scandals
Under the Radar For more than 50 years, authors have vied to win the Booker Prize, whose 2021 winner will be announced on 3 November. Charlotte Higgins dives into the teeming, fractious history of the UK’s most prestigious fiction award
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The Week Recommends The best series heading for the small screen in the year ahead
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Booker Prize nominees: who are the favourites?
Speed Read Margaret Atwood and Lucy Ellmann among the front-runners for the literary gong
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Booker prizewinner 2014: a 'magnificent story of love and war '
In Depth The Narrow Road to the Deep North wins £50,000 Booker prize for Richard Flanagan
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Booker prize 2014: who is going to win?
The Week Recommends Mukherjee's ambitious saga is a firm favourite for the Man Booker prize, but Jacobson's sinister novel is in with a chance
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