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More sex please, we’re bookish: the rise of the x-rated novel

From the Women’s prize to the bestseller lists, authors are pushing the boundaries of how explicit the novel can be – and readers can’t get enough

The Guardian - UK

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden wins the 2025 Women’s prize – an expertly woven tale of personal crises and national horror

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden has won the 2025 Women’s prize. It revisits a dark, under-explored chapter of Dutch history. It asks what happened to all the possessions that Jews who were forced to flee or were taken to camps during the second world war had to leave…

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Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersex

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Women’s Prize winner Rachel Clarke issues plea to Wes Streeting as NHS doctors face unemployment

Author and palliative care doctor won the literary award for her fourth book, ‘The Story of a Heart’

The Independent UK

Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘greatest honour’ as an intersex woman, says winner

Dutch author Yael Van der Wouden will receive £30,000 and a bronze statuette.

Evening Standard

NHS doctor Rachel Clarke and debut novelist Yael van der Wouden win Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and Fiction

Authors will receive £30,000 prize money in recognition of their achievements

The Independent UK

Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke win Women's Prize book awards

Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Thursday for her debut novel “The Safekeep.”

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Women’s prize for fiction goes to debut novelist Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep

Nonfiction award goes to Rachel Clarke’s ‘beautiful and compassionate’ The Story of a Heart, about a lifesaving transplant seen from all sides

The Guardian - UK

Debut novel by Dutch author wins 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Yael van der Wouden won the award for her novel, The Safekeep, which explores repressed desire and the unresolved aftermath of the Holocaust.

Evening Standard

Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher wins Dylan Thomas prize with ‘audacious’ novel The Coin

£20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to story ‘tackling trauma and grief with bold and poetic moments of quirkiness and humour’

The Guardian - UK

The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 has gone to a debut author – here’s where to read the winning book

The winning novel is “a classic in the making”

The Independent UK

Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout shortlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction

American authors of All Fours and Tell Me Everything are competing for the 30th award alongside four other novels highlighting ‘the importance of human connection’

The Guardian - UK

Eley Williams and Ferdia Lennon shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize

Yael van der Wouden, Seán Hewitt, Yasmin Zaher and Rebecca Watson also in running for Swansea University’s £20,000 writers’ award, with winner announced on 15 May

The Guardian - UK

The Booker Prize Shortlist 2024: The stories being considered for the top literary prize

Familiarise yourself with this year’s shortlisted novels to discover your new favourite yarn

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Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader

The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn – is the title to put your money on

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

The Guardian - UK

Intrigue, desire … and awful landlords: why queer authors are suddenly writing about houses

A settled domestic life can seem like a pipe dream for some LGBTQ+ writers, especially in the midst of a housing crisis. Yet novelists such as Booker nominated Yael van der Wouden are finding that inspiration begins at home

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Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist

The six finalists include five books by women – the highest number of female writers shortlisted in the prize’s 55-year history

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Each of the six Booker novels does something unique

As the Guardian’s fiction editor, I’ve been writing about the Booker prize for years. Now, as a judge, I’ve seen behind the curtain

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This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years

No Sally Rooney, one clear favourite and a novel set in space - this is a longlist of unexpected discoveries and big ideas

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Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

The Independent UK

Booker Prize announces 13 books on ‘glorious’ longlist of ‘timeless and timely fiction’

This year’s longlist spotlights stories about belonging and displacement, featuring literary heavyweights such as Richard Powers and Percival Everett alongside a clutch of debut novelists

The Guardian - UK

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden review – secrets and sex in postwar Europe

This remarkable debut novel explores the Netherlands’ failure to reckon with the fate of Dutch Jews alongside one woman’s reckoning with herself

The Guardian - UK

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden review – the Dutch house

An outsider shatters the quiet domestic life of a lonely young woman in this thrilling debut set in post Nazi-era Netherlands

The Independent UK

The best fiction books to read in 2024, from David Nicholls to Kiley Reid

Spend your 2024 getting lost in very good novels – there are plenty to choose from. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to the year’s unmissable fiction

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