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Discover the answers to our Christmas quiz: Knowledge of Angels which deep dives to the Booker Library and tested your novel knowledge over Noël

Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008, is the story of Roseanne, a woman approaching her 100th birthday who has spent much of her adult life in a Sligo asylum now due to close. 

Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker Prize 2022

Dastardly plots, the Victorian underworld and the British Library porn desk. Sarah Waters gives an exclusive insight into ‘the untidiness that goes into writing a novel’. Watch our interview and browse her Fingersmith papers.

As Tan Twan Eng was writing his beautiful Booker-shortlisted novel The Garden of Evening Mists, he drew himself a map. Find out how that changed the final book in this exclusive interview.

Read a discussion between Mohsin Hamid and his editor, Simon Prosser, about the creative process involved in writing Exit West.

In honour of Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop, discover the best independent bookshops in Suffolk as recommended by literary agent and local resident, Emma Shercliff.

In the run up to the 1981 Booker Prize, shortlisted author Molly Keane was asked to keep a diary by the Irish magazine, Image. In it, she documented the parties, companions, food, drink and outfits that were part of her experience as a shortlistee in the weeks before the winner ceremony.