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The author of One Boat, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, talks about how writing became a daily necessity and about the books he reads again and again
From books that changed the world to contemporary works that are certain to endure, these are your must-read classics from the Booker Library
Read the opening words from Hernan Diaz’s literary puzzle about money, power, and intimacy, which challenges the myths shrouding wealth, and the fictions that often pass for history.
As Tan Twan Eng was writing his beautiful Booker-shortlisted novel The Garden of Evening Mists, he drew himself a map. Find out how that changed the final book in this exclusive interview.
With Percival Everett’s retelling of a 19th-century classic appearing on this year’s shortlist, we’ve scoured the Booker archives for more titles inspired by myths, folklore, bible stories and other literary works
From contemporary ghost stories to intricate murder mysteries and near-future dystopian visions, we present a selection of titles that will strike fear into the heart of even the most hardened reader
With If I Survive You shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Jonathan Escoffery about standalone stories, and exploring the fraught relationships between fathers and sons
Artist William Kentridge talks about reading electronically and how 80 percent of the novels he’s read in his life have been translated fiction
Harold Fry, the unassuming hero of Rachel Joyce’s life-affirming story, is a man on a mission – to walk more than 600 miles to save a friend
This week, The Booker Prize Podcast leaves the confines of the studio for Cheltenham, where James Walton appears in conversation with this year’s shortlistees
