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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
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
In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, Jo and James discuss this year’s Booker Prize shortlist, and debate which year provided the greatest shortlist ever
Four men attempt to carry out the last wishes of their friend as they travel across the countryside to scatter his ashes
A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity
Best-known for his ‘virtually flawless’ A Month in the Country, James Lloyd Carr lived an eccentric life that encompassed, among many other things, cartography, cricket and coal
We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting, writes about Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, a book that’s impossibly gorgeous but hard to keep up with
‘He tries to work out if his friend is telling the truth or if he’s lying. Though he would prefer him to be lying, he thinks that he’s probably telling the truth’
