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The Booker Prize Podcast returns to the movies this week to take a closer look at Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, the joint Booker Prize 1992 winner, and its big screen adaptation

By turns savage, thrilling and unexpectedly tender, All Them Dogs is a gripping story of violence, lust, and greed that explores one man’s struggles to find his place in an unsparing world

Since the turn of the century, a new generation of Irish writers have cemented their place in the Booker canon. Max Liu uncovers the golden age of Irish fiction

Lucy Scholes takes a closer look at Ladivine, an unsettling masterpiece from the precociously talented French writer Marie NDiaye, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize

The award-winning author of The Power reflects on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale – a novel that, four decades on, offers far more than a series of important warnings

Known for their vivid imagery and lyrical language, these eight books highlight some of the best poets hiding among our Booker ranks

As sales of translated fiction continue to rise, we’ve rounded up the International Booker-nominated books with the most famous of fans

Gabriela Wiener’s provocative, irreverent autobiographical novel reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one Peruvian woman’s family ties to both colonised and coloniser

The connection between close friends can feel like a superpower, but it can be devastating when things go wrong. These novels explore the joys and complexities of female friendship