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From love and luck to grief and war, these books have had a profound effect on the way our readers see the world 

With A Spell of Good Things longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ talks about how impulse strikes when she’s observing others, and the literary traditions that have nourished her as a writer

From novels to short stories, magical realism to satire, explore this year’s most remarkable works of fiction – and the best books of 2023

To mark the 20th anniversary, the author reflects on the transformative impact of his Booker triumph with The Line of Beauty – a novel that propelled LGBTQIA+ narratives into the literary mainstream 

As her second novel is longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, we spoke to Karen Joy Fowler about the impact the Trump Administration had on Booth, genre switching, and the challenges of writing with a dog on her lap

With The House of Doors longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Tan Twan Eng about beginning with the book’s final sentence – and why it’s harder to write fiction about real people

The bestselling crime author talks us through the books that have inspired her career. 

We spoke to Paul Lynch, winner of the Booker Prize 2023, about writing the ‘wrong’ book and creating a realistic dystopia

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, author Andrey Kurkov talks about Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv in an exclusive interview