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An uncompromising and funny story of love and death, The Dressmaker was the first of five novels by Beryl Bainbridge to be shortlisted for the Booker. 

For decades, Booker-nominated authors have been tangled up in criminal activity. But why has a traditional crime novel never won the prize?

For Valentine’s Day, we’ve compiled a list of novels from the Booker Library with a powerful love story at their heart

We asked our five judges to describe their formative reading experiences - and to explain why reading fiction in translation matters

We asked you to help us name the recently revived Booker Prize trophy. Now, our judges have selected a final six - and it’s time to choose a winner

Parul Sehgal talks about growing up in a house where fiction was contraband - and why the International Booker is the literary award with the widest scope

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.

Tan Twan Eng talks about being a voracious reader as a child - and why, as a judge of the International Booker, he is looking for novels that speak to both the head and the heart

Uilleam Blacker talks about the island library that fostered a love of reading in him - and how the International Booker Prize allows readers to cross borders through literature

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