A lady detective who is a social worker and public trouble-shooter rolled into one
With three men and three women on the list, and with ages ranging from 35 (Ottessa Moshfegh) to 57 (Deborah Levy) the Man Booker shortlist appears to be unusually balanced.
He is one of the greatest novelists of his time, but his late novels take him to a grim elsewhere, baffling his devotees
A pithy account of the Indian intervention in Sri Lanka that culminated in tragedy