The new novel "Our Man in Iraq" is not the view of Iraq we've grown accustomed to.

NPR: Book Review: 'Our Man In Iraq'

Visitors to Jane Austen's House Museum, in Chawton, Hampshire, can view a rarely seen letter in which Austen says the novel is "my own darling child".

BBC: Jane Austen museum in Hampshire displays rare letter

Manhad Narula, one of the organisers of the literary prize, said the winning novel "unearthed... a rare, unfiltered, inside view into a lesser known world that exists within South Asia".

BBC: Booker nominee wins Asian literary prize

Mr Carpenter said characters such as Pennywise, the murderous clown in Stephen King's novel It, and the evil criminal mastermind the Joker in Batman, had contributed to the view of clowns as "scary".

BBC: Scary clown mask