Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes’s dryly comic Booker winner is nimbly adapted to suit the demands of mainstream cinema

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

Auctioned collection included signed copy of Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of Salesman’

The Man Booker shortlist author on the joys of Portland, writing modern fairytales, his next project, and why he felt he had no choice but to bin a 300-page novel he had finished

New Republic-only station seems attached to hokey Oirish travelogues as well as John Hinde advertising break and station ident imagery

In the week that the 2014 Man Booker Prize was announced, see if you can match these opening lines to their Booker winning novels

Martin Amis is a deeply moral writer with a Swiftian vigour. In his latest novel, ‘The Zone of Interest’, he returns to the story of the Nazi death camps

Sinéad Gleeson checks the odds on the nominees for the 2014 Choice Music Prize

Emeritus professor of English at New York University

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