Man Booker

News This week, Julian Barnes is kicking up a fuss amid more Man Booker controversy. "The Americans have got enough prizes of their own," he says. Barnes has been known to inhabit the minds of tortured geniuses, and now he's having a real…

News Earlier this week, two Irish presses had books short listed for the Republic of Consciousness prize. The prize was founded earlier this year by author Neil Griffiths who feels the current business model in publishing is "terrible."…

Here, where decades of diggers' tracks fill with murky puddles, here, your phone fails to find a signal. So be sure to check the Lit Review before you go. Events Alicia Byrne Keane, Sian Conway and Ailish Kerr will be performing…

A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: Apart from missing this week's Lit Review!!! Events Those hoping to hear some top notch contemporary Irish fiction this evening (Wednesday) should head down to the Temple Bar…

Previously published in Korean in 2007, a new translation Han Kang's The Vegetarian by Deborah Smith is this year's Man Booker Prize winning novel. It is a tale of isolation and repression. We are introduced to Yeong Hye, the main…

In his latest novel, Man Booker winner Julian Barnes charts the creative life and inner turmoil of Dimitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich's career polarises opinion, partially due to his association with the Communist Party in Russia. The…