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Her last novel sold 5m copies and was adapted into a hit series. Nearly 10 years on, the Korean-American author has written another epic. She discusses ambition and the diagnosis that inspired her to leave work and write ...

The six stories on the shortlist for the 10th year of the writing award run by 4th Estate and the Guardian and open to unpublished writers of colour are 'affecting in new and surprising ways', said judge and author Gurnaik Johal ...

Have It by John Cooper Clarke; The Dodo Stories by Mary Mulholland; Red River Valley by Ian McMillan; Some Sacred Harbour by Roger Robinson; Otherwhere by Carolyn Forché

A twisting, beguiling investigation into the art of poetry that ends in a call to arms on behalf of the natural world ...

The author captures the comedy and cruelty in this tenderly written coming-of-age tale ...

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments ...

This tale of a 60s college dropout driving across the US to avoid being sent to Vietnam is committed to both readerly pleasure and literary artifice ...

The acclaimed American journalist, who won the nonfiction prize in 2021, is shortlisted alongside Andrea Wulf and Matthew Sweet ...

Six writers are in contention for the £10,000 books prize, which celebrates fiction that 'breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form'

The first novel in over a decade from the acclaimed Haitian-American author lacks the power of earlier works ...