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Frederick Studemann is the Literary Editor of the Financial Times and was also a founding member of FT Deutschland. Studemann spent his early years in Cork and Dublin, before moving to London, with later postings in Berlin, the Soviet Union, Greece and Austria.

Read a discussion between Mohsin Hamid and his editor, Simon Prosser, about the creative process involved in writing Exit West.

From teenagers on the brink of adulthood to grown men struggling to process trauma, this year’s longlisted books offer fascinating insights into the male psyche – and bear similarities to other Booker-nominated novels

‘I am a child shaped in beeswax. I am made like a doll the size of a human forearm. They have given me hair and fingernail parings from the person who is to suffer. I was borne by my mistress for forty weeks under her right arm as if I was a proper child, and my wax was softened by her warmth.’ 

Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is an intensely beautiful and haunting novel about the wonder of life, the mystery of death and the strange space in between

From Bernice Rubens in 1970 to Ben Markovits in 2025, the mid-life crisis has long been a rich source of material for Booker-nominated novelists

Tsitsi Dangarembga speaks about the 2020 Booker Prize-shortlisted This Mournable Body, a searing novel about the obstacles faced by the women of Zimbabwe