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As his latest book is shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, we spoke to Alan Garner about the eight-year process behind it, how he went from reading comics to becoming a classicist… and the real Treacle Walker

With The Trees shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, we spoke to Percival Everett about what ranching taught him about writing, why oppressive regimes want an under-educated populace and why he tries to get people laughing

Read the opening words from Hernan Diaz’s literary puzzle about money, power, and intimacy, which challenges the myths shrouding wealth, and the fictions that often pass for history.

Under attack from within, Lia tries to keep her past, present and her body separate. Read an extract from Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
 

The Booker Prize 2022 longlist has been greeted with delight, curiosity and excitement by the media, publishers, influencers and even politicians
 

In Audrey Magee’s lyrical and brooding fable, The Colony, two outsiders visit an island off the west coast of Ireland, with unforeseen and haunting consequences

Graeme Macrae Burnet offers a dazzlingly inventive meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself. Read the opening of Case Study chapter here

The Booker Prize Foundation is starting a tender process for the 2023 PR, events, marketing and brand management contract and BPF’s wider portfolio

Winner of the Booker Prize 2022, Shehan Karunatilaka’s rip-roaring epic is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war. Read our extract from the book’s first section

Read the opening chapter from Nightcrawling; at once agonising and mesmerising, Leila Mottley presents a haunting vision of marginalised young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world.