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An unforgettable road trip of a novel about a middle-aged academic whose marriage, career and body are failing him 

In Time’s Arrow, events occur in reverse, as the main character becomes younger and younger and is propelled inevitably towards the horrors of the Holocaust

Sarah Waters reveals which of her shortlisted books she’d have liked to seen win the Booker Prize.

On being longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, Diane Cook speaks about transitioning from short stories to novels and the authors who have inspired her work.

The author of Wild Houses, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about his book’s small-town Irish setting, and the author who inspired him to write about the world he knew

‘In film, the point-of-view jumps and changes all the time - why not in a novel?’

Try to resist skipping straight to the end of these Booker-nominated books that will leave you feeling all sorts of emotions, from puzzled to sucker-punched  

‘Meanwhile the dark slid itself onto her chest like a snake, organizing its weight into neatly stacked coils that might go on forever and bury her, crush her, if she didn’t leap out of bed just in time and, with deft skill, reopen the door’

Leïla Slimani talks about a childhood where books were the answer to an endlessly inquisitive mind - and why the Internation Booker allows readers to interrogate both the past, and the future

We spoke to the International Booker Prize 2025 judges about their reading habits, their favourite works of translated fiction – and why more people should read it