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First-person features

From opinion pieces to personal experiences, the 600+ titles in the Booker Library inspire a range of views.

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Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

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Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter playlist: the prize-winning novel in 12 songs

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Ben Okri: How I wrote The Famished Road

Dua Lipa_A Little Life

Book recommendations

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Dua Lipa on A Little Life: ‘It challenged everything I thought I knew about love'

Bob Jackson on A Little Life

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A Little Life: 'I forged a deep connection with vulnerable, determined Jude'

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Should Martin Amis have won the Booker Prize?

Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in the 1993 film The Remains of the Day

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How The Remains of the Day changed the way I think about England

Penelope Lively

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Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively speaks to readers now more strongly than ever

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The summer I felt seen: discovering Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus  

Opinion

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Our stories matter: why we need more working-class voices in quality fiction

Circular forms, Sun, Moon by Robert Delaunay

Writers reading writers

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Anuk Arudpragasam on John Berger's G.