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Books Unlocked, our partnership with the National Literacy Trust, encourages the UK’s prison population to engage with literature. Last month we invited the singer Dua Lipa to join our session with the reading group at HMP Downview as they discussed Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain

Set during the turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed, The Long Song is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it

Win one of five bundles including a copy of our June Book of the Month, The Long Song by Andrea Levy, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag
 

Discover our comprehensive reading guide to Andrea Levy’s novel, set during the turbulent years of slavery and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010

Andrea Levy, the author of The Long Song, died in 2019. Here we reproduce some of her comments on the book, including how and why she wrote it

Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the International Booker Prize 2023, takes us through the songs and music that inspired his novel Time Shelter

Read the acceptance speeches of Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, winning author and translator of the International Booker Prize 2023 for Time Shelter

As Time Shelter wins the International Booker Prize 2023, here’s what fans and critics are saying about Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel’s timely win

In 1991 Ben Okri became the first Black writer to win the Booker Prize. He explains how his novel, The Famished Road, was written on a magic tide of freedom

Lucy Scholes returns to 1970 to cast a fresh eye over Shirley Hazzard’s second novel, described by the author as ‘a love letter to Naples’