The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma review – a brutal journey
The victims of Nigeria’s bloody civil war are given a voice in this tale of a man’s quest to find his estranged brother
January 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths
From James Joyce to Ali Smith and Chigozie Obioma, the archetypal stories of the ancients have inspired some of our best fiction
October 2021
The Audio Long Read
Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals – podcast
The long read
Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals
October 2019
Booker prize shortlist 2019: who to put your money on
How to write a Booker contender – by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and others
September 2019
Gbolahan Obisesan: 'You have to give the story to the people'
Books blog
The Booker prize shortlist resists easy reading
Alex Clark
July 2019
Not read them yet? A cheat's guide to the 2019 Booker prize longlist
Handmaid's Tale sequel leads 'exacting' 2019 Booker prize longlist
January 2019
'Why Jay?': Chigozie Obioma on the haunting death that inspired his novel
The Man Booker shortlisted author is back with The Orchestra of Minorities, a novel that grew from a life-changing event during his student days in Cyprus
November 2017
Best books of 2017
Best books of 2017 – part two
From moving memoirs to far-reaching fiction, novelists, poets and critics pick their best reads of the year
November 2016
Public Books
Boys must cry: masculinity in Nigerian fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole and Chigozie Obioma are among a new wave of Nigerian luminaries who are including new ideas about gender into their ethos
A long way to the shortlist: choosing the Guardian first book award finalists
Reading through the enormous variety of debuts – from biography to memoir to poetry and fiction and beyond – has been a tough but exciting challenge
Poet makes Guardian first book award shortlist with 'hymns to the male body'
Only the second time poetry has reached the shortlist, Andrew McMillan’s Physical lines up with novels, short stories and Russia reportage for 2015 prize
Guardian First Book Award 2015 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2015 Guardian First Book Award, in association with Waterstones, has been announced today (12 November 2015)
October 2015
Book of the day
Man Booker prize 2015 – the shortlist
This year’s impressive contenders reflect the diversity of fiction in English
March 2015
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma review – four brothers and a terrible prophecy
This promising debut spins a simple, almost mythological conceit into a heartbreaking elegy to Nigeria’s lost promise, writes Helon Habila
