The Irish novelist has won the 2023 Booker Prize for his latest, which our reviewer calls a "slow-burning dystopian novel" about an Irish family "shattered by the rise of a radical right-wing party." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Donal Ryan is the latest name forced to seek an income outside books, while children’s writers complain that stars from other media monopolise advancesDespite scoring three bestsellers in five years and a clutch of awards, The Spinning Heart author Donal Ryan has been forced to return... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer Sir William Trevor has died, aged 88. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Affair between drama student and an older actor will feature in The Lesser Bohemians, due from Faber next autumn following award-winner A Girl is a Half-Formed ThingIt took Eimear McBride almost a decade to find a publisher for her first novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. Now, a year after... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]