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From Faulkner to Melville, Paul Lynch discusses the writers who capture the strangeness of the human condition and the eternal truths that define us 

In his beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite what it seems, Sebastian Barry explores what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us

An exhilarating novel-in-stories that pulses with style, heart and barbed humour, while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay cheques

As Hungarian-British author David Szalay wins the Booker Prize for Flesh, here are eight Booker-nominated novels with Hungarian characters at their heart

Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood, testing the bonds of parent and child to breaking point

Set across four decades, The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran is about revolution, oppression, resistance and freedom, charting one family’s flight from and return to Iran

Watch David Jonsson, Eleanor Tomlinson, Tobias Menzies, Anya Chalotra, Antonia Thomas and Dua Lipa read extracts from the six shortlisted books

In honour of Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop, discover the best independent bookshops in Suffolk as recommended by literary agent and local resident, Emma Shercliff.