Our columnist Bob's Books offers an early overview of the IBS longlist this year with mixed reviews
She won the prestigious literature prize for her novel 'Orbital'
It awarded German writer Jenny Erpenbeck along with translator Michael Hofmann
She wrote 'The Dimensions of a Shadow', 'Dance of the Happy Shades', 'Who Do You Think You Are' and 'The Progress of Love'
He becomes the fifth Irish writer to win the high-profile literary prize
She is the author of the famous novel 'Possession'
The winner will be announced in London on November 26
The 47-year-old won for his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy of books made history
Historical novelist Hilary Mantel, the first British writer to win the Booker Prize twice, has died aged 70, her publishers 4th Estate Books announced on Friday. “We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our...
The list of 13 novels will be whittled down to a shortlist on September 6
Bora Chung's stories combine science fiction, horror and fantasy
On the occasion of Pope Francis’ visit to Malta, Preca Publication have published the book Il-Papiet Kbar ta’ Żmienna by Robert Aloisio, a teacher and author of seven books, many of them biographical. The pope deals with the seven popes or recent...
It is about a white family with a farm outside Pretoria – where Galgut grew up
Richard Powers makes it onto the shortlist for the second time
Others include Richard Powers, Damon Galgut, Sunjeev Sahota, Mary Lawson
The book's translator Anna Moschovakis won half the £50,000 prize
Book reflects his own experiences growing up with alcoholic mother
British bookmakers were backing Scotland’s Douglas Stuart to claim the prize.
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