Crime fiction titles nominated for the Booker Prize

With The Trees shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, we spoke to Percival Everett about what ranching taught him about writing, why oppressive regimes want an under-educated populace and why he tries to get people laughing

With Case Study longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, we spoke to Graeme Macrae Burnet about surrounding his characters with real people, resisting classification and his favourite Booker books

Read the opening chapter from Nightcrawling; at once agonising and mesmerising, Leila Mottley presents a haunting vision of marginalised young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world.

Graeme Macrae Burnet offers a dazzlingly inventive – and often wickedly humorous – meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself. Read the opening chapter here