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Elizabeth Strout’s moving story shows how a simple hospital visit illuminates the tender relationship between an estranged mother and daughter

Exploring love, war, and the human experience, these works of fiction from the Booker Library celebrate the South Asian diaspora through the region’s most influential voices and stories

From funny books to thrilling books, fresh voices to Booker Prize veterans, here’s the lowdown on this year’s longlist 

From original languages represented to a writer who had once declared himself ‘dead’; here are the key details and surprising facts about this year’s longlist

The Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital reveals why she’s always wanted to write a play, and what drew her to adapt Barbara Pym’s Quartet in Autumn for the stage

Literary translator Sophie Hughes considers the benefits of fitting more fiction into your life, precisely when you think you can’t

A literary phenomenon in Japan, Hunchback is an extraordinary and thrilling debut novel about sex, disability and power

‘Why am I in this car? I’ll sit still. Sometimes, if you don’t move, your memory comes back. But it’s not working. One thing is certain, the driver is smoking. The vehicle is filled with heavy smoke. My eyes are burning. I feel sick.’

In 2005, Hilary Mantel emailed her editor Nicholas Pearson the first 40 pages of a new book, which would transform not only her career, but our expectations of historical fiction. Here, he recalls how Wolf Hall came to life