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Donal Ryan Q&A
In this Man Booker 2018 longlist interview, Donal Ryan tells us how his novel From a Low and Quiet Sea was inspired by real-life events
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An extract from Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund
Read an extract from Vigdis Hjorth’s novel Is Mother Dead?. Translated by Charlotte Borslund it was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023
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An extract from The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
In The Silver Bone, Andrey Kurkov takes inspiration from the real-life archives of crime enforcement agencies in Kyiv, crafting a propulsive narrative that bursts to life with rich historical detail
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An extract from My Friends by Hisham Matar
An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that friendship can provide
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The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 26: An interview with Time Shelter's Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel
On The Booker Prize Podcast this week, Jo and James are joined in the studio by the winning author and translator of this year’s International Booker Prize
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The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 21: The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
On The Booker Prize Podcast this week, our hosts take a closer look at the metafictional thriller widely considered to be Iris Murdoch’s best work
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An extract from The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing’s novel The Good Terrorist follows a group of radicals and a woman who is drawn into their terrorist activities. Read the opening pages here
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Booker Prize authors on the childhood books that made them fall in love with fiction
From Roald Dahl’s Danny the Champion of the World to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, discover the children’s books that were instrumental in sparking Booker Prize authors’ imagination and love of reading
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Stephen Snyder interview: 'The Memory Police resonated with readers experiencing a new sort of reality'
The translator of our October Book of the Month talks about the impact of being shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022, the Japanese fiction boom – and why this 20th-century novel speaks to 21st-century readers
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Exit West
Mohsin Hamid’s moving story of a refugee couple emerging into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold to their past, and to each other