As the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist is announced, we’ve pulled together the most interesting facts and trends that have emerged in this year’s selection
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Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence was a Canadian novelist and short story writer
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Reginald Hill
Reginald Hill was an English crime writer and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement
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Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator
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Len Deighton
Len Deighton is a British author of books on cookery and military history, but is best known for his spy novels
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Christy Brown
Christy Brown was a celebrated Irish author, poet and painter. Born with a severe form of cerebral palsy, he was able to write, type and paint with only with the toes of one foot
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Meet the official Booker Prize book clubs as they prepare to read the 2022 shortlist
We have partnered with the Reading Agency to select six groups who will each be reading a different book on the 2022 shortlist, to compete for places at our winner ceremony
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H.E. Bates
H. E. Bates was an English writer known for works including Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May, and My Uncle Silas
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A Guilty Thing Surprised
The 5th entry in crime writer Rendell's bestselling Inspector Wexford series of novels
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Head to Toe
The only novel ever published by the playwright Joe Orton (posthumously), this fantasy follows the fortunes of the hero, Gombold, who strays onto the head of a creature some hundred miles high