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The BBC and The Booker Prizes have partnered to showcase gifted new directing talent.

Patricia Lockwood, shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize for her debut No One Is Talking About This, revisits her favourite Booker Prize winner

2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted Damon Galgut, author of The Promise, on why he loves Kelman’s 1994 winner How Late It Was, How Late.

Gaby Wood, Director of the Booker Prize Foundation on the news that Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
 

As part of a series for the Booker website, shortlisted writers choose a book from the Booker Library that has had a profound impact on them. Richard Powers reaches out of his comfort zone to pick up Penelope Fitzgerald’s Offshore, which, when he finally puts it down, leaves him ‘a different kind of reader’.

Bookmakers have been drawing up their odds on which book is favourite to win the 2021 Booker Prize on 3 November. Here’s their odds on the shortlist.
 

Anuk Arudpragasam, Damon Galgut, Patricia Lockwood, Nadifa Mohamed, Richard Powers & Maggie Shipstead are the shortlistees for the 2021 Booker Prize

Mel Giedroyc, judge for the 2022 International Booker Prize is to be replaced on the panel by Viv Groskop, writer, comedian and TV, radio and podcast presenter

In a fresh approach for 2021, each of the six shortlisted novels is appraised by one of the judges, who voice the panel’s shared opinion and their own response