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Robert Webb has said Channel 4 sitcom 'Peep Show' could return when the characters are “old men” in their seventies.

David Mitchell, comedian tour dates

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON — Novels from Ireland, the United States, Canada and Britain that explore families, communities and a world in cr

Paul Murray’s “The Bee Sting,” a tragicomedy about a family on the brink of financial ruin, and Jonathan Escoffery’s “If I Su

LONDON: The shortlist for the 2023 Booker Prize was announced in London, with the final six books offering “terrors, pleasures, joys and consolations.” Twice-shortlisted novelist Esi Edugyan, who chairs the judging panel, said the chosen novels “offer a full range of human experience” that “transport us not just outside reality but outside the common language of the everyday.” The prestigious literary prize is open to works of fiction by writers of any nationa...

A novel by Jamaican-American author Jonathan Escoffery is among the six finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. Escoffery’s “If I Survive You,” a set of interlinked stories about a Jam...

The judges will read the shortlisted books a final time before announcing the winner on Nov 26. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The winner will be announced in London on November 26

The judges chose the final six novels from a longlist of 13 titles.

The prestigious award recognizes the best original novel written in English and published in the U.K.