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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Martin Doyle

    AK Blakemore: ‘The best historical fiction is comfortable living with the sheer weirdness of the past’ (opens the original)

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    It’s an hour-by-hour retelling of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. A “doom” was a type of medieval devotional art, usually a church mural illustrating Judgment Day. But the concept of a “doom” wasn’t so unequivocally negative to the medieval mind – it meant an ending, not necessarily a bad one. I wanted to evoke the idea of the imagined future. The revolt is conspicuous by its absence from most overviews of English history, and is generally interpreted – if it’s interpreted at a

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Martin Doyle

    Roddy Doyle returns to Barrytown (opens the original)

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    Roddy Doyle makes an emotional return to Barrytown, the working-class heartland of his fiction, in his newly announced novel, The Yellow Corridor, to be published by Faber next September. The synopsis reads: “Kevin Hogan is out with his granddaughter in Dublin when he’s approached by Linda, a woman who says he used to teach her. Over coffee, her memories relight his own: 22, fresh into his first teaching job, hit with the tang of a room full of teenagers and the task of trying to inspire the

  3. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Martin Doyle

    Booker Prize shortlist: two former winners in running for £50,000 prize (opens the original)

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    Two former winners of the Booker Prize, who address homophobia in very different ways, and a previously shortlisted author are among the six writers on this year’s Booker shortlist. Douglas Stuart, the New York-based Scottish author, who won with Shuggie Bain in 2020, is back with John of John, in which a son returns home to his repressive father in a traditional Calvinist island community in the Outer Hebrides. The Disappearers by Jamaican Marlon James, who won in 2015 with A Brief History of

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Martin Doyle

    Two Irish writers on BBC National Short Story Award shortlist (opens the original)

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    Two Irish writers are among the five on the shortlist for the 2026 BBC National Short Story Award with the University of Cambridge, which was announced this evening on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, as the prestigious award celebrates its 21st anniversary. The all-woman shortlist includes previous winner and five-time shortlistee, Lucy Caldwell, from Belfast, and multi-award winning writer Caoilinn Hughes, from Galway, who is shortlisted for the second year in a row. Scottish writer Cherise Saywell,

  5. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Martin Doyle

    Nicole Flattery awarded Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (opens the original)

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    Nicole Flattery has been awarded the 2026 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature at a gala dinner in Trinity College Dublin this evening attended by 150 guests from the world of Irish literature, including 22 previous winners. Established in 1976, the prize celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under the age of 40. To mark its 50th anniversary, Dr Peter Rooney, benefactor and custodian of the prize, has doubled its value to €20,000. The prize is administered by the Osca

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