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• Man Booker prize 2014: players and predictions – podcast

  Audio (31min 34sec), 12 Sep 2014:

  We assess the 2014 Booker shortlist and hear readings from Howard Jacobson, Ali Smith and Neel Mukherjee

• The American novels that should have won the Booker prize

  12 Sep 2014: Britain’s top literary award includes American titles for the first time this year. We asked top writers and critics which novels should have won had US authors been eligible throughout the prize’s history

• Has the Man Booker prize really opened up?

  12 Sep 2014: John Dugdale: This year might see the first American winner, the oldest winner or the first winning story set in the future. So why does it feel like the shortlist has the same sort of book as ever?
  

• Ursula K Le Guin, rising above genre and so much else

  11 Sep 2014: Alison Flood: It is entirely appropriate that her Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters places her among the greats

• Mercury prize 2014 ignores big stars in favour of FKA Twigs, Young Fathers and East India Youth

  11 Sep 2014: The only big names on this year’s shortlist are Damon Albarn and Bombay Bicycle Club, with seven debuts and three jazz artists making up a relatively obscure list of nominations

• Australian Richard Flanagan shortlisted for Booker prize

  9 Sep 2014: Tasmanian author’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North makes final six despite US competition

• Booker prize: Americans shortlisted but David Mitchell fails to make the cut

  9 Sep 2014: Art, war and internet dominate as Neel Mukherjee tipped as favourite to win first Man Booker prize to allow all nationalities

• The Mercury prize: what our shortlist would be

  9 Sep 2014: The Mercury shortlist is unveiled on Wednesday night. Ahead of that, our critics pick the 12 albums they want to see named by the judges

• Man Booker prize 2014: get to know the shortlist – in pictures

  9 Sep 2014: Meet the six authors in contention ahead of the final verdict on 14 October
  

• The Man Booker prize 2014 shortlist keeps surprises to a minimum

  9 Sep 2014:

  Justine Jordan: In the year the Americans were feared to be taking over, only two ended up as finalists, with familiar British stars alongside them

• Man Booker prize shortlist 2014 includes US authors for the first time

  9 Sep 2014:

  Two American authors line up with British novelists including Ali Smith and Howard Jacobson

• Man Booker prize 2014 – let's play guess the shortlist

  8 Sep 2014: Guardian books: It's a traditionally impossible game, but we've had a go on the books desk. What are your predictions?

• Getty Images grant recipients 2014 - in pictures

  8 Sep 2014: The photography agency Getty Images celebrates the 10^th anniversary of its grants programme

• Gillian Wearing digs up her past for tilt at Vincent Award

  8 Sep 2014: Turner Prize winner in line to collect Dutch prize for 'influencing the development of contemporary art in Europe'

• Jessica Chastain: ‘I’d love to do a superhero movie’

  7 Sep 2014: Jordan Hoffman: This autumn belongs to Jessica Chastain, who stars in four of the season’s Oscar contenders, directed by the likes of Al Pacino, Guillermo Del Toro and Christopher Nolan. But what she really wants is a cape

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