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Taiwan author wins International Booker for 'slyly sophisticated' novel

LONDON - Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi and translator Lin King won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for Taiwan Travelogue , a playful postcolonial novel with a culinary bent.

Bangkok Post

Taiwan's Yáng Shuāng-zǐ wins Booker Prize

The first Taiwanese writer and her translator have won the International Booker Prize for a novel that explores themes of colonialism, power, class and love.

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Taiwan Travelogue becomes first Mandarin novel to win International Booker Prize

Written by Yang Shuang-zi and translated by Lin King, Taiwan Travelogue has become the 11th winner of the literary award

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First Taiwanese writer and translator win the International Booker Prize

Written by Yang Shuang-zi and translated by Lin King, Taiwan Travelogue has become the 11th winner of the literary award.

Evening Standard

International Booker prize goes to novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese for the first time

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, pulled off an ‘incredible double feat’ in succeeding as ‘both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel’

The Guardian - UK

‘Hope, insight and burning humanity’: 2026 International Booker prize shortlist announced

The six finalists include Marie NDiaye and Yáng Shuāng-zǐ alongside Daniel Kehlmann’s second nomination for the £50,000 prize

The Guardian - UK

Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist

Thirteen books make this year’s longlist for translated fiction, which awards a first prize of £50,000

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My favourite books are in Amazon’s Big Deal Days sale: Top picks to read before the end of 2025

Whatever your literary catnip may be, it’s time to add steamy, intellectual or spooky books to your winter reading stack

Evening Standard

These are my 6 favourite books that can be read in less than a day

From Claire Keegan's ‘Small Things Like These’ to Vincenzo Latronico's ‘Perfection’, these novellas are less than 200 pages

The Independent UK

The Booker Prize Longlist 2025 is out! Here are the novels to read before the winner is crowned

The long-awaited Booker Dozen has finally been announced. We decode what all the novels are about, and where to buy them

Evening Standard

Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw

Chair of judges Roddy Doyle says the 13 ‘gripping’ titles in contention for the £50,000 award all ‘examine identity, individual or national’

The Guardian - UK

A century of Clarissa: Why Mrs Dalloway will forever fascinate us

THE READING LIST: As Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel turns 100, Katie Rosseinsky speaks to experts about how this dazzlingly experimental work still has readers and writers under its spell

The Independent UK

The spring reading list—the page-turners that will have you hooked

Featuring truly fine debuts and household names

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Universality by Natasha Brown review – a fabulous fable about the politics of storytelling

A terrific second novel from the British author of Assembly examines what it means to be truthful – and who really benefits when facts come to light

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Universality by Natasha Brown review – clever satire of identity politics

Slyly investigating language and bias in media culture, this follow-up to Assembly confirms Brown as one of the most intelligent voices writing today

The Independent UK

Natasha Brown on her razor-sharp satire Universality: ‘There was absolutely a lot of cringe’

INTERVIEW: The author, who shot to prominence with her 2021 debut novel ‘Assembly’, speaks to Katie Rosseinsky about writing habits, the future, and her button-pushing new book

The Guardian - UK

The Long Wave: From the Met Gala to Afcon, 2025 promises to be a bumper year

New Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Michael Jackson biopic and more brilliant Black art and culture coming your way in the next 12 months

The Guardian - UK

Fiction to look out for in 2025

An epic family saga, new novels from Natasha Brown and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus a David Szalay masterpiece… the coming year looks good

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The best books to look out for in 2025, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Adam Kay

2025: Start planning your reading list for next year with Katie Rosseinsky’s guide to the new novels and non-fiction you shouldn’t miss

The Guardian - UK

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

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

Evening Standard

Queenie: everything to know about the upcoming Channel 4 adaptation of Candice Carty-Williams’ novel

Even thought there are months to wait, anticipation is sky-high for Candice Carty-Williams’ TV adaptation

The Guardian - UK

Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 review – more solipsism than state of the nation

The latest celebration of emerging literary talent brings thrills, charm and emotional punch to the page. But this new generation have taken an inward turn compared with the more worldly themes of bygone years

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Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists – meet the class of 23

From Kazuo Ishiguro to Zadie Smith, Granta’s list has been spotlighting future stars since 1983. Four decades on, what does its evolution says about our literary landscape?

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SA Department for Child Protection case notes system crashing, putting children at risk, PSA says

South Australian child protection staff say vulnerable children may be at greater risk because the case management system they are using keeps crashing.

Liverpool Echo

Mum couldn't afford funeral when baby died aged 15 days

Natasha Brown said she will never be able to "unsee" her daughter fading away in front of her

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