American author George Saunders has been handed this year's Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel.

A 29-year-old debut novelist has been shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize for a book she began writing on her mobile phone on her way to work.

4321 is immensely readable, at times compelling, sometimes saggy tale, says Noel Baker.

Hannah Stephenson grills industry experts about the hotly-tipped new titles for 2017.

A prolific reader, Julia didn’t start to read like a writer until she was 15, and read Jane Eyre. She took an MA in creative writing, but concentrated on poetry. It wasn’t until the end of the course that she had an idea for a novel.

I’d be lost without music. My taste in music is wide and ever-expanding. 

Paul Auster

Ah, the late, late rethink. Bane of the columnist’s life. Last week yours truly had a tasty segment of his column nicely tucked away, simmering like a stew just beginning to brown as the flavours seep through.

Duke Special doesn’t do compromise when it comes to music, he tells Ed Power

The Shadow Girls

SJ WATSON, has always written, but he was good at science as well. So he decided that science would be his career, and writing his hobby.

Sunset Park

Paul Auster

Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun today scooped the world’s richest literary prize for a work published in English.

A SHORTLIST of 10 books for the 2004 IMPAC Literary Award was announced in Dublin yesterday.