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BOOKS

Booker Prize finalist: Inspired or insipid? Stone Yard Devotional contemplates uncertainty

This year’s shortlisted novels for the Booker Prize have been chosen from a 13-strong longlist.
Lifestyle

UK Booker Prize set to name first-time winner

Canadian author Sarah Bernstein poses with her book "Study of Obedience" during the photo call for the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 for Fiction at the National Portrait Gallery, in London.
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BOOKS

Study For Obedience: An absurdist account of subjugation and complicity

US author Paul Harding's "This Other Eden" is up for both the US National Book Award and the Booker Prize, both of which are due this month.
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BOOKS

This Other Eden: A tale of paradise gained – and lost

Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox) in Succession
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LIFE & CULTURE

What happens when a story loses a main character? 

Books, particularly great works of fiction, transport us to lands far away, times long gone or the minds of characters strange or stimulating.
Lifestyle
LIFE & CULTURE

Why we should all be reading more fiction

Waterford crystals are installed onto the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration ball on the roof of One Times Square on Dec 27, 2022 in New York City.
Lifestyle
LIFE & CULTURE

New Year’s Eve, as described in fiction, is a grim affair

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