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

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Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’

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Sally Rooney to publish Hebrew translation of novel with BDS-compliant publisher

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Offseason by Avigayl Sharp review – wry comedy of a frazzled teacher

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If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn review – how on earth do you translate Shakespeare?

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Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa review – lost voices from an Irish asylum

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Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard review – the stories behind the Windrush scandal

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What should win this year’s International Booker?

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Tom Gauld on Middlemarch being voted the best novel of all time

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‘I’m so grateful I got to live these days’: A Ghost in the Throat author Doireann Ní Ghríofa on recovering from depression

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The best recent crime and thrillers

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Backtalker by Kimberlé Crenshaw review

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Cast Away by Francesca de Tores review – gripping portrait of the real-life Robinson Crusoe

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American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘blistering’ debut poetry collection

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Frank Cottrell-Boyce calls for children’s reading to be treated as a ‘right’, in final laureate lecture

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Seascraper by Benjamin Wood audiobook review

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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans review – immensely enjoyable return of the epistolary novel

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Weimar by Katja Hoyer review – the town that changed Germany

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#MeToo-themed novel wins inaugural reader-led award worth £50,000

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Vocal Break by Lauren Elkin review – a celebration of the female voice

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