Novel

The award recognizes the best in long fiction published in the U.K. and Ireland between Oct. 1, 2022, and Sept. 30, 2023. The nominees were chosen from 163 books submitted by publishers.

Book review: 'We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies' puts exile under a microscope

Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel 'We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies', about a family that's displaced following China’s invasion of Tibet, was shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

RIP 'City of Joy' writer Dominique Lapierre; a look at his career, some of his best-selling books

French writer Dominique Lapierre, who was celebrated for his novels about the World War II struggle to liberate Paris and depicting a life of hardship in a Kolkata slum, died on December 4 at the age of 91. Born on July 30, 1931, in Chatelaillon, Lapierre has sold about 50 million copies of the six books he wrote in collaboration with the American writer Larry Collins — the most famous being Is Paris Burning?

Beyond Ponniyin Selvan: 6 other novels by Kalki Krishnamurthy

Kalki Krishnamurthy and Ponniyin Selvan are a cult in Tamil historical fiction, read the gargantuan novel after watching Mani Ratnam's magnum opus film, but if that sounds daunting, read Kalki's other shorter novels, straddling the historical, social, and romance. Here, we list six of them

The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida book review: In war-torn Sri Lanka, a ghost probes into his own death

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka’s second novel after Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, has won the 2022 Booker Prize.

In Pics | Celebrating 100 years of Ulysses by James Joyce

James Joyce’s Ulysses was published exactly 100 years ago on June 16, 1922. 16th June is also commemorated as Bloomsday in Ireland and elsewhere – a celebration of the life of James Joyce.

Bride and Prejudice: Monica Ali’s 'Love Marriage'

The author’s first novel in ten years takes a revealing and entertaining look at a section of multicultural British society today.

A playful exploration of parallel universes

Norwegian writer Gunnhild Øyehaug’s new novel dwells on how the misreading of a single word creates an alternative world that separates a woman and her child.

Tales of bookshops in two cities

A memoir of bookselling in Cairo and a novel on the life of a bookseller in Algiers show the importance of bookshops and how they reflect changes in the outside world.

An Irish author wins close to Rs 80 lakh for one-sentence 270-page novel

The judges hailed the book as ‘formally ambitious, stylistically dauntless and linguistically spirited’

Now, microchip that mimics human brain

Researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich in Switzerland have now made a "breakthrough" by understanding how to configure so-called neuromorphic chips to imitate the brain's information processing abilities in real-time.

Real-life mystery of JK Rowling's 'secret' novel uncovered

Rowling, whose Harry Potter series made her Britain's best-selling author, posed as a retired military policeman called Robert Galbraith to write "The Cuckoo's Calling" that was released in April to strong reviews but minimal sales.

Bond back in novel penned by American bestseller

Fittingly for the launch of the new authorised James Bond novel Carte Blanche, there was a luxury car, champagne on tap, crack British troops abseiling from the rafters and a long-legged girl on a vintage motorbike.

'Jimmy the Terrorist' in small-town India: Book Talk

It took nearly a decade for Omair Ahmad's depiction of life in small-town India to take shape as a novel after starting life as a short story.

Post-apocalyptic novel wins Australian book award

A novel set in a future where an unchecked global population has created an apocalypse took the top fiction prize in Australia's IP Picks unpublished book awards on Wednesday.