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Alan Garner packs within hundred and fifty odd pages enough to put multi-part fantasy franchises to shame.

Britain's Booker Prize for fiction unveiled its final contenders for this year's award Tuesday, featuring the oldest author and the shortest book ever to make the prestigious six-strong literary shortlist.

Claire Keegan's "Small Things Like These" has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2022. The Irish author's acclaimed novel addresses the horrors of Ireland's Magdalene laundries.

The annual award celebrates the best works of fiction from around the world that have been written in (or translated into) English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland

88-year-old Englishman Alan Garner, who wrote Treacle Walker, is the oldest author with shortest book in word count

Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel ‘Glory’ has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize.

The nominations are split equally between men and women authors. At 87, Alan Garner is the oldest author ever to be shortlisted.

Five fiction and the same number of non-fiction books will vie for this year’s title, while six others will look to bag a Booker

A barbed political satire about the fall of an African dictator, told from the perspective of talking animals. A mordantly comic novel about the inesc