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Want to discover the stories behind how your favourite books were written?

Booker Prize authors from down the years generously open their archives to show us all the creative process behind their masterpieces.

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Front cover of Not a River

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An extract from Not A River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott

A still from Schindler's List showing a girl in a red coat
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Thomas Keneally on how he wrote Schindler's Ark: 'I knew where the good stuff was'

Scene from the 2012 film Life of Pi, directed and produced by Ang Lee

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Yann Martel on writing Life of Pi: 'You want a sense that it was written in one breath'

Rooney Mara as the young Roseanne in the 2016 film adaptation of The Secret Scripture

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The secrets of Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture

Sarah Waters sits in front of bookshelves and a window.
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Fingersmith at 20: inside the archive with Sarah Waters

Japanese garden with a blossom tree.

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Mapping The Garden of Evening Mists

Exit West audiobook cover on a red background.

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The Making of Mohsin Hamid's Exit West

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