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Type: Feature
Date: 21 Sep 2023

Chetna Maroo interview: 'It’s unusual to experience such a clear starting impulse for a story'

With Western Lane shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Chetna Maroo about sport, sisters and unspoken language

Type: Book
Date: 17 Mar 1983

Flying to Nowhere

John Fuller’s hauntingly strange and lyrical novel. On a desolate island monastery in the Middle Ages, pilgrims are going missing one by one…

Type: Feature
Date: 17 Jan 2024

Where did Timothy Mo go? Revisiting the Booker author 'who got away'

Part of a golden generation of writers in the 1980s, Timothy Mo was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times – then dropped off the radar

Type: Feature

Discover the longlist: Jessica Cohen, ‘Fiction is where I feel most comfortable and most creative’

The winner of the 2017 International Booker Prize discusses how she views familiarity as an asset in her work.

A still from Schindler's List showing a girl in a red coat

Type: Feature
Date: 09 Jul 2022

Thomas Keneally on how he wrote Schindler's Ark: 'I knew where the good stuff was'

In writing Schindler’s Ark, winner of the 1982 Booker Prize, Thomas Keneally found himself in the unique position of both author and archivist

Type: Feature
Date: 04 Apr 2023

Reuben Woolley interview: ‘Translation is a profession that necessarily starts as a hobby’

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, translator Reuben Woolley talks about Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv in an exclusive interview

Type: Feature
Date: 14 Aug 2025

Andrew Miller interview: ‘I’ll write anywhere, with anything, on anything’

The author of The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, explains what inspired his novel, and names the books and writers that have influenced him over the years

Type: Feature
Date: 17 Feb 2026

Troy Onyango interview: ‘Read everything, everywhere, all at once’

International Booker Prize 2026 judge Troy Onyango explains what he’s hoping to find among this year’s submissions, and shares his tips for finding time to read more

Type: Feature
Date: 03 Aug 2026

An extract from Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman

Philosophically and formally adventurous, at once intimate and cosmic in scope, Helen of Nowhere asks: what must we give up in exchange for true happiness?

Type: Book
Date: 29 Jan 2026

Helen of Nowhere

Philosophically and formally adventurous, at once intimate and cosmic in scope, Helen of Nowhere asks: what must we give up in exchange for true happiness?