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Paul Murray

June 2024

  • Zadie Smith.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Fraud by Zadie Smith audiobook review – exuberant and funny

    Narrated by the author, this story of a Victorian author and his housekeeper cousin, who is obsessed by the Tichborne claimant, explores the lies people tell themselves

May 2024

  • Paul Murray.

    The books of my life
    Paul Murray: ‘In some ways the T’ang poets were the original Sad Dads’

  • Composite image of best paperbacks May 2024

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Richard Osman, Rebecca F Kuang and more

March 2024

  • Author Paul Murray, whose fourth novel The Bee Sting won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold book of the year prize

    Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prize

    Irish author’s ‘suspenseful and linguistically astonishing’ fourth novel praised for its ‘great wit and humanity’ by judge Bernardine Evaristo

January 2024

  • Paul Murray, Fern Brady and Michael Magee.

    Paul Murray and Fern Brady win inaugural Nero book awards

  • Zadie Smith, Paul Murray and Naomi Klein.

    Zadie Smith and Paul Murray on shortlist for Writers’ prize

November 2023

  • Paul Murray, Paul Lynch, Paul Harding .

    Bookies make the three Pauls their favourites to win 2023 Booker prize

  • Contenders … (from left) Paul Murray, Fern Brady and Lex Croucher.

    Paul Murray and Fern Brady shortlisted for inaugural Nero awards

  • bookerweb

    Booker prize 2023: will the judges talk themselves out of the right choice?

  • WEB something for Books

    ‘It took me a decade’: the 2023 Booker prize shortlisted authors on the stories behind their novels

August 2023

  • illustration of tourists in new york

    ‘Can I bring my switch?’: A family holiday throws up existential questions

    When Booker-longlisted author Paul Murray took his 10-year old son to New York, he wasn’t expecting the Nintendo store to be the greatest attraction• Geoff Dyer, Lissa Evans, Joe Dunthorne and more on their favourite holidays in fiction
  • The Booker longlist 2023.

    Booker prize reveals ‘original and thrilling’ 2023 longlist

    Previously nominated authors Sebastian Barry, Tan Twan Eng and Paul Murray join 13-strong field including four debuts
  • Justine Jordan

    Irish writers, debuts – and groundbreaking sci-fi: the Booker longlist in depth

    Justine Jordan
    The personal meets the political in a list that includes dystopia and SF as well as little-known debuts

June 2023

  • View of old bunker in forest during autumn<br>GettyImages-1143343660

    The Bee Sting by Paul Murray review – master of the generation game

    Murray’s brilliant new novel, about a rural Irish clan, is pure pleasure and posits the author as Dublin’s answer to Jonathan Franzen

May 2023

  • Paul Murray

    Book of the day
    The Bee Sting by Paul Murray review – a tragicomic triumph

  • Paul Murray: ‘I’ve got better as I get older at just listening to people.’

    Books interview
    Paul Murray: ‘I just dumped all my sadness into the book’

March 2020

  • Douglas Hodge as Captain Grimes and Jack Whitehall as Paul Pennyfeather in the 2017 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about boarding school

    From Evelyn Waugh to Molesworth, novels set in these places of privilege are microcosmic studies of oppression and rebellion

May 2016

  • Wodehouse prize winners Hannah Rothschild and Paul Murray.

    Wodehouse prize for comic fiction declares joint winners

    Award named after much-loved author shared between Hannah Rothschild, for The Improbability of Love, and Paul Murray, for The Mark and the Void

February 2016

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    The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray review – a philosophical shaggy dog tale

    The follow-up to Skippy Dies is a playful, sometimes chilling farce set in an Irish investment bank

November 2015

  • Mark Rylance in the BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall.

    Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction

    From Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell to Goldsmith’s prize winner Kevin Barry, more and more writers are adopting this way of storytelling to bring immediacy and intimacy to their work
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