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Kiley Reid discusses her 2020 Booker Prize longlisted debut novel, Such A Fun Age, from the inspiration behind the book to what’s next in her career

Can Xue, Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping speak to us about the International Booker Prize-longlisted 2021 novel, I Live in the Slums.
 

Author C Pam Zhang on her Booker Prize-longlisted novel How Much of These Hills is Gold, which was longlisted for the prize in 2020

‘The orchard, vibrantly green and with adobe walls, backed up against the village at one end and bordered the river at the other. It was an orchard mostly of sweet and sour cherries. The villa, a mixture of rustic and urban architecture, sat in the middle of it.’ 

Whether you’re new to Heart Lamp or have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide, featuring insights from critics, our judges and the book’s author and translator, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading.

Author Adania Shibli and translator Elisabeth Jaquette speak about the 2021 International Booker Prize-longlisted Minor Detail. 

We hear from Colum McCann, author of 2020 longlisted book Apeirogon.

Barbara Pym’s compassionate and funny novel follows four people in late middle-age with different eccentricities, but the same problem: loneliness

Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Not A River is the finest expression yet of Selva Almada’s compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina

Gabriel Krauze speaks about his novel Booker Prize-longlisted novel Who They Was, the inspiration behind it and the boundary between fact and fiction