Book review: much of this reads like a surreal picaresque in a destitute part of Glasgow

Book review: Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Sarah Hall are among the 50 authors selected to write about the albums that shaped them

Review: Gwendoline Riley’s latest novel perfectly captures the ennui of our times

Second solo album has a sense of displacement and disquiet throughout

Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature

Author wins for satire on race in the US and becomes first American to win prize

Madeleine Thien now favourite with symphonic masterwork Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Man Booker selection pales in comparison to international stablemate - this is where the titles of real quality can be found, lost in translation as it were

The awards preserve a system in which Irish work has to be passed on to a UK press

Irish authors lose out as four debuts included on 13-strong list

How a simple question began thousands of conversations and got a celebration started

To accompany this beautiful short film by Ana Godinho de Matos (Chameleoneye Films) our Literary Correspondent Eileen Battersby reflects on the seductive menace that has always shaped Deborah Levy’s elegant, intelligent and devastatingly realistic vision

Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Ron Rash and Deborah Levy all feel it is important for beginners to try out different forms – poems, novels, short stories, plays – to see what suits them and what excites them

Over the next 12 weeks we’ll be getting the help of successful authors to explain everything would-be writers need to know. This is the first step to your debut novel