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With This Other Eden shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Paul Harding about the real island that inspired the book, and why his method of writing is like musical improvisation
In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts are joined by 2015 Booker Prize-winner Marlon James to discuss the prize’s impact on his career
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With The House of Doors longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Tan Twan Eng about beginning with the book’s final sentence – and why it’s harder to write fiction about real people
With Old God’s Time longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Sebastian Barry about the importance of dreaming, and why Irish writers do what they do
From family dramas to scientific breakthroughs to competitive sport, the Booker Prize 2023 longlist offers a breadth of remarkable fiction. But where to start?
In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts – Jo Hamya and James Walton – discuss our August Book of the Month, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981
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Full of lyricism and power, Paul Harding’s spellbinding novel celebrates the hopes, dreams and resilience of those deemed not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference
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An exhilarating novel-in-stories that pulses with style, heart and barbed humour, while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay cheques
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In her accomplished and unsettling second novel, Sarah Bernstein explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of a singularly unreliable narrator
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With tenderness and verve, Elaine Feeney tells the story of how one boy on a unique mission transforms the lives of his teachers, and brings together a community
