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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

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 

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.

In a series of thirteen interconnected stories, Urszula Honek encapsulates the tragedies and misfortunes that befall a group of people in the Beskid Niski region

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

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.

Artist William Kentridge talks about reading electronically and how 80 percent of the novels he’s read in his life have been translated fiction

‘I’ve just updated the fable for the age of pandemics, exoplanets, and mass extinction’

The globally bestselling author and scriptwriter discusses the inspiration behind the unlikely protagonist at the heart of her novel Elena Knows.