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With her debut novel longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, Leila Mottley talks about the true story that inspired Nightcrawling, helping young people to start reading again and trying to be a normal teenager

With The House on Via Gemito longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, we spoke to its author and translator about their experience of working on the novel together – and their favourite books

With After Sappho longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, Selby Wynn Schwartz talks about the influence of Virginia Woolf, her writing and reading ravenously
 

International Booker Prize 2026 judge Sophie Hughes reflects on the sense of connection translated fiction can bring, and the qualities she’s looking for among this year’s submissions

With All the Little Bird-Hearts longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow about why she set her book in the 1980s, and writing whenever there’s an opportunity to do so

With The Book of Disappearance longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, we spoke to its author and translator about Palestinian poetry, Charles Dickens and the dazzling richness of other cultures

The International Booker Prize 2026 nominated author and translator on writing about life on the margins, and how the hyperlocal can allow us to think global

The author of The Disappearers, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026, on realising that novels could be more than schoolwork, re-reading Toni Morrison, and trusting rumours more than facts

The author of May We Feed the King, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026, on writing in the bath and the poem she re-reads regularly

The author of My Name is Lucy Barton reflects on where the character of Lucy came from, the importance of surprise, and why the novel is, in many ways, a mother-daughter love story