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Top 10s Top 10 books about consent

From Thomas Hardy to Kristen Roupenian, literature offers a changing map of the treacherous terrain of sexual relationships

Published: 25 Nov 2020

Top 10s Top 10 Irish gothic novels

From ancient terrors to modern horrors, authors from Oscar Wilde to Anna Burns have found in Ireland rich and genuinely scary storytelling terrain

Published: 1 Apr 2020

Wait, be patient, keep faith: an unlikely mantra for life

Alice O'Keeffe

In these turbulent times, we can all learn from novelist Anna Burns’s creative process for opening her mind, says literary critic Alice O’Keeffe

Published: 19 Dec 2019

Published: 19 Dec 2019

Impossible times for political novels

Letters: Peter Taylor-Gooby and Doug Sandle respond to Dorian Lynskey’s article on the death of the political novel

Published: 28 Aug 2019

Published: 28 Aug 2019

Feminist retellings of history dominate 2019 Women's prize shortlist

From Pat Barker’s reworking of Greek myth to Anna Burns’s take on the Troubles, the finalists turn familiar stories on their heads

Published: 28 Apr 2019

Anna Burns and Sally Rooney on Rathbones Folio prize longlist

Booker winner Milkman and Normal People, which took the Costa novel award, among 20 contenders for the £30,000 prize

Published: 18 Mar 2019

Top 10s Top 10 books about the Troubles

Novelist David Keenan picks fiction, history and reportage that record the devastating conflict that convulsed Northern Ireland for three decades

Published: 30 Jan 2019

Audiobooks, inclusivity and #MeToo ... how books changed in 2018

New agents and imprints, Northern Ireland’s first Man Booker winner … in 2018 the books world turned towards inclusivity and a broadening of perspectives

Published: 29 Dec 2018

Pretentious, impenetrable, hard work ... better? Why we need difficult books

This year’s Booker-winner Milkman has been criticised for being challenging. But are we confusing readability with literary value?

Published: 10 Nov 2018

Universal credit could silence working-class writers, MPs told

All-party inquiry into authors’ incomes hears the ‘minimum income floor’ in the new benefit’s rules could mean only the wealthy will write

Published: 30 Oct 2018
Digested week Sinking feeling about Titanic replica and a 'challenging' Booker read

John Crace

Also this week: Gordon Ramsay’s empty nest syndrome and overrun Commons proceedings

Published: 26 Oct 2018

Published: 26 Oct 2018
Booker winner Milkman defies 'challenging' reputation to become bestseller

Anna Burns’s novel sold almost 10,000 copies in the first days after the prize, and Faber has printed 120,000 additional copies to meet demand

Published: 23 Oct 2018
Anna Burns’s Man Booker prize is more than a fairytale – it’s a lesson

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The author’s literary triumph while skint and relying on food banks is the news we all need right now, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Published: 22 Oct 2018

Published: 22 Oct 2018

Anna Burns wins Man Booker prize for ‘incredibly original’ Milkman

Published: 16 Oct 2018

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