AS Byatt

Nov 12, 2024 | standard.co.uk | AS Byatt |Charlotte McLaughlin

Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize with Orbital, in a record year for female writers. According to the Booker Prize, 36 men and 19 women have won it since its inception. This year, five women were shortlisted for the prize for the first time in its history. Here, the PA news agency looks back on the biggest female writers to have snapped up the prestigious literary award.

Aug 30, 2024 | inkl.com | AS Byatt |Margaret Drabble

Noel (left) and Liam Gallagher at Wembley Stadium in 2008. ‘Not everyone loves Oasis, but most people enjoy a sibling feud.’ Photograph: Zak Hussein/PA News of the reunion of Liam and Noel Gallagher next year for their first Oasis gigs since the band’s dramatic breakup 16 years ago has brightened up the dog days of summer for more than just diehard fans. Not everyone loves Oasis, but most people enjoy a sibling feud.

Apr 21, 2024 | crimereads.com | Elly Griffiths |A.S. Byatt |AS Byatt

I recently came across the first pages of a crime novel, written when I was eleven. It was called The Hair of the Dog and was about an author who steals someone else’s plot and is subsequently murdered. At this point in my life I’d never met a writer or written a book. Why was I already so interested in books about books?

Dec 22, 2023 | inkl.com | Cormac McCarthy |AS Byatt

The Guardian - UK Lifestyle Compiled by Nicholas Wroe Can you beat the authors? Take the bumper books quiz of 2023! There are some famous titles here… can you find them? Illustration: Kevin Whipple/The Guardian Authors’ questions IAN RANKIN ASKS: The film A Haunting in Venice was released this year, with Kenneth Branagh reprising the role of Hercule Poirot. But what was the original title of the Agatha Christie novel on which it is very loosely based?

Nov 28, 2023 | independent.co.uk | AS Byatt |Richard Godwin

When the late AS Byatt won the Booker Prize for Possession in 1990, she famously promised to spend the prize money on a swimming pool for her house in Provence. In 2009, Hilary Mantel vowed to blow her Wolf Hall bounty on “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll.” The 2015 winner, Marlon James, looked forward to buying the Ozwald Boateng suit he’d always craved.