Site search

While the other members of his 1980s gang – Barnes, McEwan, Rushdie and Ishiguro – have all bagged a Booker and other awards, Amis remained relatively trophy-less. So why did the big literary prizes elude him?

Use our comprehensive reading guide to explore the winner of the International Booker Prize 2016, The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith

In this extract from his book The Philosophy of Translation, the International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator explains how the boundaries of language are always permeable 

In Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize 2023-winning novel, a mother faces a terrible choice as personal freedoms are eroded and society heads towards collapse

Throughout history, works of fiction have been censored, suppressed and banned by anxious authorities, including a number of novels from the Booker archives

If you’ve been inspired by Heart Lamp to seek out more fiction about life in India from a female perspective, here’s our selection of Booker-nominated works 

With four books by Latin American authors on this year’s International Booker Prize longlist, here are a dozen more for your TBR pile

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016, His Bloody Project reveals the provisional nature of truth through a fictional 19th-century triple murder in a remote Scottish crofting community