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The Booksellers Association spoke to staff who also highlighted James by Percival Everett, and everything from Chris Hoy’s autobiography to a book about fishing by a dog

With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation UK, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. In 2024, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it comes to recommending fiction. From Samantha Harvey’s spellbinding Booker winner Orbital to…

Even through a year of nonstop news about elections, climate change, protests and the price of eggs, Americans still found time to read

From Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo to Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings, Percival Everett’s James and a host of inventive debuts – this year’s highlights in fiction

Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize

Familiarise yourself with this year’s shortlisted novels to discover your new favourite yarn

Camilla congratulated the six shortlisted authors at Clarence House in her first public engagement since she contracted the seasonal bug.

American author Everett and British writer Harvey have been given the shortest odds of winning the £50,000 literary prize but Ladbrokes say the ‘race is wide-open’

The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn – is the title to put your money on

From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on November 12.

THE LIST: Catch up on the year’s best new novels with Katie Rosseinsky and Jessie Thompson’s edit of 2024’s most memorable fiction