Booker Man

Three British writers among contenders as some big names omitted from final list

Virginia Reeves’s Man Booker-longlisted debut is eloquently written but on the dull side

Ted McDermott’s novel focuses on life’s contradictions and absurdities

Impressive show for German language writers with 11 titles among 160 nominated

A new short story collection, ‘A Slanting of the Sun’, brings us back to the setting of his novels

Investigation led to many prominent figures being arrested for online rumour-mongering

Tom McCarthy’s ‘Satin Island’ is the highlight of a varied and intriguing selection

Books nominated by public libraries for consideration include 142 novels

The Tasmanian’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about Australian POWs doomed to build the Burma Death Railway, is the first great work to win the Booker since 2001

Word for Word

Writers are never certain, says the novelist, but winning the Man Booker Prize gave him the confidence to radically depart from his trusted style for his latest novel, ‘J’

From Jane Eyre’s madwoman in the attic to Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and Francie in The Butcher Boy, madness is a recurring and compelling theme in literature

Damon Galgut’s new novel could easily be yet another work of lightly fictionalised biography, yet it is far more than that

‘The Spinning Heart’ nets novelist £10,000 prize

Brian Boyd and Emma Somers root through a bumper crop of TV, film and music to find gift ideas for the loved one who thinks they’ve seen it all

‘The Luminaries’ trumps Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Testament of Mary’, his third nomination