Fiction

BRITAIN’S Booker Prize for fiction will anoint a first-time winner when the 2023 recipient of the prestigious prize is announced at a ceremony in London on Sunday (Nov 26) night.

Sarah Bernstein spins a complex psychological tale of a narrator who is at once dominated, yet suspiciously conscious of her own subjugation

Paul Harding acquaints us with a tragedy-bound island community that is nevertheless full of warmth, fellowship and dignity

Death is even more of a spoiler than this column

If you want a nuanced worldview, reach for that novel

Novelists over the centuries have taken rather a bleak view of the festivities