provides new challenges and dangers. It also introduces some memorable new characters, including an escape artist octopus (technically a septopus) named Hank (Ed O’ Neill), a nearsighted whale shark (Kaitlin Olson) and her beluga friend (Ty Burrell), and — most memorably — two lazy sea lions voiced by Idris Elba and Dominic West. Sure, I miss the first film’s Tank Gang and seagulls, but the sea lions’ bark cracked me up every time.

The film is Dory’s story, and its biggest triumph is the way it adds depth to a character who was previously comic relief. From its first scenes, the story repaints Dory’s memory loss not as a joke but a disability, and suggests that her cheerfulness is a protective device she wields to keep people from abandoningAward, set up as literary antidote to the Booker, will halt its £40,000 prize as hunt for new sponsorship goes on

The Folio prize, set up to challenge a “dumbed down” Man Booker in 2011, is to be suspended for a year while its directors continue to search for a new sponsor.

It was announced in spring that publisher the Folio Society would not be renewing its backing after two years, during which the £40,000 award was won by the short story writer George Saunders and novelist Akhil Sharma.

The prize is open to English-language fiction from around the world, with the longlist proposed by an “academy” of authors and critics from which each year’s judging panel is drawn.

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