Category - Literature

• Book explores Edna O’Brien’s twilight years
• Best books...chosen by Dan Jones
• 5 books to fall into, from Marlon James to Joe Biden
• Odyssey expert who took aim at ‘abysmal’ big screen epic is to retranslat­e poem from scratch
• KIDS’ BOOK OF THE WEEK
• Top 10 reads for autumn
• Wayne Johnston, Patrick deWitt make Giller Prize long list for $100K prize
• ON A FLORAL HIGH
• Gorey author shortliste­d for prestigiou­s CAP award
• Tim Adams revisits Jonathan Franzen’s The Correction­s
• Sebastian Barry
• ‘Shadow of the Sun’ first Gulf novel translated into Greek
• Resil B. Mojares: The Cebuano Historian
• Meet the next generation of Canterbury writers
• ‘The Middle East isn’t binary’
• When Dad asked me to edit his novel, I wanted to say no - but ran directly towards the lion’s den
• Next generation of writers to gather
• Birlinn seeks Scottish romance writers in open call for new novels
• Board ‘dumbs down’ English A-level texts
• Colin Grant talks to Marlon James about his Booker-longlisted, Jamaica-set novel The Disappeare­rs
• Forget Spitting Image and prepare for more Spewing Sycophancy. Why WON’T Fringe comics satirise the SNP?
• In Uttar Pradesh, a language of loss
• Kentucky-born author who advocated a simpler life
• ‘Fiction is one of our best ways to get to truth’
• Taiwan and the UK sign literature translator deal
• Andrey Kurkov Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War
• Celebratin­g children’s authors at Word on the Street
• New from Arcade Publishing
• Daily Quiz
• A stack of new reads to keep you company
• A MASSIVE VISION
• Cover story
• Giller Prize gets prize boost of $4 million
• Kevin Powers
• Student’s poem to feature on memorial stone
• Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
• Autumn’s best new reads
• Behind The Scenes
• Kay gets ready to Push The Boat Out
• FIRESIDE READS TO RELISH THIS AUTUMN FROM ENTERTAINE­RS AND BROADCASTE­RS TO THE LITERARY WORLD’S BIGGEST HITTERS