Sadly for Charlotte Wood, who was hoping to become the first Australian woman author to win the coveted and influential prize ...

"Orbital," by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.

The huge 17th-century painting shows the Infanta Margarita, her young ladies-in-waiting, a dwarf, a buffoon with a dog, a nun ...

All Premium Bonds have an equal chance of a prize - now at 21,000 to 1. The numbers, or more accurately strings of numbers and letters of varying lengths, are selected by a machine known as ...

WHERE did we come from? How did we become who we are? Where are we headed? In Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner explores these existential and philosophical questions through the framework of an espionage ...

A group of 23 Nobel Prize–winning economists released a petition this Wednesday championing Harris’s proposed agenda as better for the economy than Republican candidate Donald Trump’s.

Booker Prize-shortlisted author Paul Bailey has died aged 87, his agent at RCW Literary Agency (RCW) has confirmed. He is survived by his partner Jeremy Trevathan. The novelist appeared twice on ...

Play gets underway on October 20, live on Eurosport and discovery+, with the players battling for the £100,000 first prize. All matches up to the quarter-finals will be best-of-seven frames.

The world seems to be callously divided over her newly Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Held. Some have gone so far as to reprimand her for failing to comply with an author's “responsibility” to ...