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Byline: Sian Cain Percival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US's most prestigious literary prizes, for James, his acclaimed reimagining of Mark Twain's [...]

Byline: Benjamin Lee Salman Rushdie, Miranda July and Percival Everett are among this year's finalists for the National Book awards. Rushdie, who is receiving his first nomination, is competing in [...]

Byline: David Barnett A 'boundary-pushing take on the police procedural' which features a human detective working with an AI sleuth in order to solve a missing persons case has won [...]

Byline: Lucy Knight The Theakston Old Peculier crime novel of the year has faced criticism after its 2024 longlist did not feature a single book by an author of colour. [...]

Byline: Ella Creamer Three women have triumphed in this year's Writers' prize, formerly known as the Rathbones Folio prize, with poet Liz Berry winning the overall book of the year [...]

Byline: Ella Creamer Danger Sound Klaxon! The Horn That Changed History by Matthew F Jordan has won the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year. Jordan's book charts [...]

Byline: Sarah Shaffi A book about the teachable moments from RuPaul's Drag Race has beaten titles about naked Canadians and a book of essays about clowns to win the Bookseller/Diagram [...]

Byline: Sarah Shaffi Mick Herron has won the Theakston Old Peculier crime novel of the year award, after his fifth time being shortlisted in six years. Herron won the award [...]

Byline: Claire Armitstead Margaret Drabble was a bright young star with five novels to her name in 1971, when she was talked into joining her old friend JB Priestley on [...]

Byline: Claire Armitstead One day, during the first Covid lockdown, Caleb Azumah Nelson's father offered to cut his hair. 'He's not great with his words, but that's a very specific [...]

Byline: Guardian writers Egypt You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021 By Alaa Abd El-Fattah In a totalitarian system where even ideas are punishable with imprisonment, this collection [...]

Byline: Kelly Burke The North Carolina writer Jason Mott has won the National Book Foundation's 2021 prize for fiction, for his novel Hell of a Book. The US foundation's 72nd [...]

Byline: Alison Flood An examination of the Jewish origins of the Man of Steel, Is Superman Circumcised?, is vying with an up-to-date look at camel milk and related camel goods, [...]

Byline: Candice Carty-Williams I have a funny thing about winning. I find it overwhelming. I don't know how to cope or act when things are meant to be 'good'. What [...]

Byline: Ian Sample It's been 30 years since Barry Lopez, the master wilderness writer, won the National book award with Arctic Dreams, his glorious examination of life and landscape in [...]

Byline: Sian Cain The Women's prize for fiction has nominated a non-binary transgender author for the first time in its 27-year history, on a 16-book longlist featuring a previous winner, [...]

Byline: Steph HarmonMiles Franklin-winning Queensland author Andrew McGahan, the author of 10 novels including Praise, Last Drinks, The White Earth and the Ship Kings series, has died of pancreatic cancer [...]

Byline: Richard Lea Stav Sherez has won the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier award for crime fiction with his novel The Intrusions. The third outing for detectives Jack Carrigan and Geneva [...]

Byline: Emma Bowden Michael Morpurgo and Waterstones prize winner David Solomons are among the authors battling it out to be crowned for the children's category of the Independent Bookshop Week [...]

Byline: Alison Flood Guardian first book award winner Andrew McMillan's poetry collection Physical is competing with Sunjeev Sahota's Booker-shortlisted novel The Year of the Runaways for the £30,000 International Dylan [...]

Byline: Alison Flood Too Naked for the Nazis has nosed ahead of Reading from Behind: A Cultural History of the Anus to be named the oddest book title of the [...]

Byline: Readings Before the holidays take over, these longer, warmer evenings are a good excuse to slow down with a stack of books. Reading a handful of these will ensure [...]

Byline: Ian Sample Science editor The most prestigious science book prize in Britain has been won by a solo female writer for the first time in its 28-year history. Gaia [...]

Byline: Alison Flood One of the UK's top crime-writing awards has gone to a debut, after Sarah Hilary won the Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year award with [...]

Byline: Alison Flood Jeff VanderMeer's story of a doomed scientific expedition into the closed-off 'Area X', Annihilation, has won the American novelist the Nebula award for best novel. The prestigious [...]

Byline: Madhvi Pankhania Don Watson's The Bush, a meditation on the heartland of Australia, won the 2015 book of the year and non-fiction prizes at the New South Wales premier's [...]

Byline: Alison Flood Neel Mukherjee's story of a young man who is drawn into into extreme political activism in 1960s Calcutta, The Lives of Others, has won him the £10,000 [...]

Byline: Alison Flood Michel Faber's haunting tale of a missionary who travels to a strange planet trillions of miles away, The Book of Strange New Things, has been shortlisted for [...]

Byline: Alison Flood For the past three years I've helped judge the romantic novel of the year award, selecting books such as Veronica Henry's elegant Night on the Orient Express [...]

Byline: Alison Flood Diana Rajchel's Divorcing a Real Witch has already drawn a wave of positive reviews from the Wiccan community, and now the practical guide is set for wider [...]

Byline: Susanna Rustin When Jonathan Edwards was a schoolboy in south Wales, his primary teacher dressed the class in rags, smeared dirt on their faces, and took them on a [...]

Byline: Susanna Rustin When Jonathan Edwards was a schoolboy in south Wales, his primary teacher dressed the class in rags, smeared dirt on their faces, and took them on a [...]

Want to know when your favourite author has a new book out? What festivals are lighting up your holidays? When the awards are being dished out? Check out our literary [...]

Byline: Stephen Curry It is New Year's Day and I should be looking forward but I've been busy -- and delayed by the flu -- so I'm not yet done [...]

Byline: Mark Brown, Arts correspondent A once devout Mormon who replaced the rules and rigours of her religion with the freedoms and joys of writing has been shortlisted for one [...]

Byline: Mark Brown, Arts correspondent Judges for one of the UK's most prestigious literary prizes last night heralded a major new talent when they named mental health nurse Nathan Filer [...]

Byline: Mark Brown, Arts correspondent Nathan Filer still does the odd Sunday shift as a registered mental health nurse, although they may well become less frequent after his debut novel [...]

Byline: Sean Ingle Doped: The Real Life Story of the 1960s Racehorse Doping Gang by Jamie Reid, a rollicking tale of crooked bookies and nobbled nags - with a sprinkle [...]

Byline: Alison Flood A writer who was branded 'unteachable' as a child and diagnosed with severe dyslexia at the age of 12, was yesterday awarded the Carnegie medal, the most [...]

Byline: Mark Brown Arts correspondent The unstoppable Hilary Mantel last night added another award to her astonishing haul of major literary prizes when judges unanimously named Bring up the Bodies [...]

Byline: Maev Kennedy A gasp of relief will no doubt have been heard from the losers, as Canadian author Nancy Huston scooped the least coveted book award of the year, [...]

Byline: Mark Brown Arts correspondent An intensive care nurse at Great Ormond Street children's hospital in London will compete for one of the UK's biggest literary prizes after her debut [...]

Byline: Jackie Kay In this bleak midwinter, with the recession and bad weather, poetry may be helping us to keep body and soul together. At a time when everything is [...]

Byline: Charlotte Higgins Chief arts writer In a surprise result for the Costa book of the year award, poet Jo Shapcott has taken the pounds 35,000 award for her book [...]

Byline: Benedicte Page Books that challenge orthodoxy and readers' expectations dominate the shortlist for this year's Guardian first book award, which includes a novel influenced by the African tradition of [...]

Byline: Stephen Moss The early press material for An Elegy for Easterly, the collection of short stories that this week won the Guardian First Book award, called Petina Gappah 'the [...]