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Royal author Omid Scobie's new book Endgame is released on Tuesday

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.

The author said he found himself ‘living through’ scenes he had already written for his book Prophet Song during the pandemic lockdowns.