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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
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‘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’
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
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Anne Tyler’s domestic saga paints a vivid portrait of the Whitshank family, and reveals the ways in which our everyday lives are far more complex than they appear on the surface
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The librarians and booksellers taking part in our first Reading Challenge tell us what they enjoyed most about reading 2024’s best in translated fiction – and who they’re tipping to win
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In exhilarating, provocative prose, Ia Genberg reveals an intimate and powerful celebration of what it means to be human
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Flesh is the winner of the Booker Prize 2025. A spare but propulsive novel, Flesh follows a man from adolescence to old age as he is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp
In this guest post, singer-songwriter Dua Lipa explains why Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life does exactly what great literature is supposed to do
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Ben Okri wrote a poem for the Booker Prize to celebrate the generosity of its years funded by the Man Group and the transition to a partnership with Crankstart
