Long reads
Long reads
Find out more about the authors in the Booker Library with these in-depth features, which reveal how their books were written and explain why they endure
Essays, interviews and speeches: these features help enrich our understanding and deepen our appreciation of the books in the Booker Library.
Browse our long reads
- Book recommendations
- Long read
How Beyond Black shone a light on Hilary Mantel's most personal preoccupations
- Interview
- Long read
‘When I finished it, I felt immortal’: How Eleanor Catton wrote The Luminaries
- Long read
- Book recommendations
The Nick of Time by Francis King: an eye-opening state of the nation novel
- Long read
- First person
Should Martin Amis have won the Booker Prize?
- First person
- Long read
- Video
How The Remains of the Day changed the way I think about England
- Long read
- First person
- Video
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively speaks to readers now more strongly than ever
- Long read
- First person
The summer I felt seen: discovering Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
- Opinion
- First person
- Long read
