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The writer was on the operating table for cancer, then exactly a year later he found out his nightmarish vision had made the shortlist. He reveals why the words for Prophet Song came out with such urgency, there was no time for paragraph breaks

Read an excerpt of Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's novel, here, then dive in with us throughout the month.

The Oneg Shabbat archive was a secret project of Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto to record their histories as they awaited deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II

The thing about Prophet Song, Paul Lynch’s unexpected winner of the Booker, is that it’s almost hilariously unprophetic. It starts with the Irish secret police knocking at the door, looking for a trades unionist, and goes on to a dystopian vision of a fascist state.

This change in the Princess of Wales is just one reason she’s considered a ‘dream’ to the institution of the Royal Family

One of the most captivating and enigmatic novelists of the 20th century, Bernice Rubens remains largely unknown despite her remarkable literary achievements. She was the second recipient of the Booker prize in 1970 for her novel The Elected Member and its first female winner.

Categorising fiction may help to sell books, but it says little about how writers write or readers read

Perhaps the mayhem last week will end politicians’ complacency about violent anti-immigrant groups, says Stephen McDermott, a reporter for TheJournal.ie

Numerous research studies have suggested that children from a single-parent family are worse off than those who have two parents at home. These findings chime with decades of stigma that have painted coming from a single-parent home as undesirable.