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Mike McCormack

The latest news and reviews of books by author Mike McCormack.

November 2023

  • A farmhouse provides the setting for This Plague of Souls.

    Book of the day
    This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack review – a mysterious homecoming

    A man’s past comes back to haunt him when he returns home to rural Ireland, in this noirish metaphysical novel from the author of Solar Bones

June 2018

  • Mike McCormack.

    Mike McCormack wins €100,000 International Dublin literary award with one-sentence novel

    Solar Bones, the Irish author’s fifth book, is told by a ghost on All Souls’ Day and was turned away by major publishers as too uncommercial

May 2018

  • Digitised, militarised, technological times.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books to help you survive the digital age

    From Philip K Dick’s obtuse robots to Mark O’Connell’s guide to transhumanism, novelist Julian Gough picks essential reading for a helter skelter world

February 2018

  • ‘There is such immense diversity of purpose’ … Sebastian Barry.

    Sebastian Barry named Irish fiction laureate, hailing 'golden age of Irish prose'

    Award-winning novelist succeeds Anne Enright in three-year role promoting Irish literature and its formidable generations of writers

January 2018

  • Akira 25th Anniversary film still

    Top 10s
    Top 10 errant teenagers in fiction

    From Infinite Jest’s antsy prodigy to Brighton Rock’s haunted antihero, debut novelist Danny Denton picks the best bad girls and boys in books

December 2017

  • Book covers composite: The End We Start From, Attrib, The Gallows Pole, We That are Young, Know Your Place, Speak Gigantular

    Best books of 2017
    Best books of 2017: indie publishers on their favourite books of the year

    India’s answer to Lear, a teen tale set amid the London riots and the first great book on grime. Experts pick 2017’s smartest, oddest and most overlooked reads

September 2017

  • Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen of Tramp Press

    'Sexists need not apply': publisher refuses to look at manuscripts addressed to 'Dear sirs'

  • Booker Prize Comp 2017 Left to Right - Fiona Mozley, Mohsin Hamid,Ali Smith,George Saunders Paul Auster Ali Smith Mohsin Hamid George Saunders Fiona Mozley Emily Fridlund

    Man Booker prize 2017: shortlist makes room for debuts alongside big names

July 2017

  • Booker Prize covers

    Man Booker prize 2017 longlist – in pictures

    Find out more about the 13 novels in contention this year for the most prestigious prize in the British books world
  • Booker Prize Arundhati Roy, Paul Auster, Zadie Smith

    Man Booker prize 2017 longlist led by Arundhati Roy's return to fiction

    Twenty years after her first novel took the same award, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness leads a field of 13, ranging from established stars to newcomers
  • How to decide … Man Booker shortlisted novels at a bookshop, 2016.

    Books blog
    The Man Booker prize 2017 longlist: who should be on it?

    This year’s ‘Booker dozen’ is released on Thursday. Who will make the cut is hard to guess, but there are plenty of strong candidates

June 2017

  • Mike McCormack. Irish novelist and short story writer. London Photograph by David Levene. 24/3/07

    A life in ...
    Mike McCormack: ‘On my fifth book I’m a debutante’

    The cult Irish writer is back with a prize-winning novel, Solar Bones, after a decade in the doldrums

January 2017

  • Neil Griffiths

    Crowdfunded small-press prize announces inaugural shortlist

    Neil Griffiths’ Republic of Consciousness prize for ‘brave and brilliant’ works from small publishers unveils contenders for award funded by online raffle

December 2016

  • Dudley’s Bookshop Cafe, Bend, Oregon

    2016 in review
    Hits and misses: indie publishers pick their books of 2016

  • His Bloody Project, The Sellout, All That Man Is, The Improbability of Love, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, The Return.

    Best books of 2016
    Gifts and misses: publishers pick their books of 2016

November 2016

  • No-holds-barred satire about racism in America … Booker winner Paul Beatty.

    Best books of 2016
    The best fiction of 2016

  • books-illo

    Best books of 2016
    Best books of 2016 – part one

  • Mike McCormack, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths prize.

    Point of view
    Blake Morrison on the Goldsmiths prize for fiction: ‘There are still things to say that haven’t been said before’

  • Mike McCormack, winner of the 2016 Goldmiths prize for Solar Bones

    Single sentence novel wins Goldsmiths prize for books that 'break the mould'

September 2016

  • The Goldsmith's Prize shortlist 2016

    Goldsmiths prize shortlists novels 'that break the mould'

    Eimear McBride is in contention for a second time, alongside five other novels including Deborah Levy’s Booker-nominated Hot Milk
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