One hundred years ago, in February 1922, Sylvia Beach, owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company, published James Joyce’s Ulysses, in full, for the first time. Now to mark the centenary of the seminal novel’s publication, the publisher and…
Atwood and Evaristo are joint Booker prize winners (Guardian)
With the hindsight of history, the Booker misses plenty of tricks. In 1986, The Handmaid’s Tale, one of the most vital and prescient works of modern fiction, was pipped to the prize by Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils. With Margaret…
Chigozie Obioma, Oyinkan Braithwaite, others make 2019 Booker Prize longlist
The longlist for the 2019 Booker Prize has been announced. Released on Tuesday, July 23, the list, otherwise known as ‘Booker Dozen’, features 13 authors including Nigeria’s Oyinkan Braithwaite for My Sister, The Serial Killer (Atlantic Books) and Chigozie Obioma…