Perhaps, with 2023, it’s as simple as acknowledging that, for me, Prophet Song, however hypnotic, simply did not cast its spell in the way that the more readable The Bee Sting did.

Toward the end of Prophet Song, the harrowing novel that won this year's Booker Prize, Paul Lynch unspools a sentence that gathers momentum for more than a page before it seizes on a truth: "the ...

Dystopian novel Prophet Song by Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize. Set in Dublin, the story follows a family dealing with a terrifying new world in which democracy falls away.