Council staff have been told that the Virgin Mary “wore a hijab” and that "Jesus grew a beard" during a lecture about ...

Past Booker winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are among the nominees for this year's award.

The Booker Prize 2026 judges called their shortlisted novels “very human”. Their choices reveal why literary greatness may depend on risk, ambiguity, unpredictability and distinctly individual ...

Douglas Stuart’s John of John is still in the running for the prize, while longlisted Irish debut novel All Them Dogs did not make the shortlist. The final six contenders for this year’s Booker Prize ...

The top of the crop has been selected! The Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards out of the U. K.

Prize committee chair Mary Beard notes the picks are “set anywhere and everywhere.” ...

The training included claims about the Virgin Mary, the hijab and Jesus’s beard, while material also defended Sharia as a ...

Council staff involved in anti-terrorism work were told the Virgin Mary “wore a hijab” during a publicly funded presentation on Islamophobia. The example was used during a Project Unity training ...

The two authors are in the running for the £50,000 award alongside a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction legend, a comic writer and a debut novelist ...

North Yorkshire employees who handle anti-terror work told in training that Islam’s attitude to women did not conflict with Western values The Virgin Mary “wore a hijab”, staff at a council have been ...

The winner will be announced in November.

Demonstrators attend the “Lift The Ban” rally organised by Defend Our Juries, challenging the British government’s ...