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Type: Feature
Date: 28 Jul 2023

Han Kang interview: 'I never imagined The Vegetarian would find so many readers'

The author of The Vegetarian – and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 – talks about the impact of winning the International Booker Prize in 2016, how the novel has been received worldwide and why it questions what it means to be human

Type: Feature
Date: 31 Jul 2023

Why you should read Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood

In our monthly series, ‘TBR: The Booker Revisited’ Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on hidden gems from the Booker Library. This month’s selection is equal parts macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait

Type: Feature
Date: 27 Jul 2023

The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 5: The strange case of Vernon God Little

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts – Jo Hamya and James Walton – discuss the 2003 Booker Prize winner, Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre

Type: Book
Date: 18 May 2023

The House of Doors

Based on real events, Booker Prize-shortlisted Tan Twan Eng’s masterful novel of public morality and private truth examines love and betrayal under the shadow of Empire

Type: Book
Date: 08 Jun 2023

The Bee Sting

A patch of ice on the road, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil – can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life?

Type: Author

Chetna Maroo

Chetna Maroo was born in Kenya and lives in London

Type: Author

Martin MacInnes

Martin MacInnes is a Scottish author, who has written three novels to date. These include Infinite Ground, which won the Somerset Maugham Award

Type: Author

Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize in 2023. He is an internationally acclaimed Irish novelist who has published five novels

Type: Author

Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Kent, and has extensive personal, professional and academic experience relating to autism

Type: Author

Siân Hughes

Siân Hughes is a writer who grew up in a small village in Cheshire, England, where her debut novel Pearl is set