A HISTORICAL novel about Henry VIII’s adviser, Thomas Cromwell, leads the shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

Irish authors have missed out on a place in the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize.

IRELAND and Europe lost a world-class writer yesterday with the death of novelist John McGahern.

Booker Prize-winner AS Byatt has taken a swipe at the Harry Potter books, saying they are for readers whose imaginations stretch to “soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip”.