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Helen Castor
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Helen Castor

Helen Castor was a judge for the 2022 Booker Prize which was won by Shehan Karunatilaka for his book, 'Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'. She is a historian of the middle ages and sixteenth century, a Bye-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Neil MacGregor
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Neil MacGregor

Neil MacGregor is a British cultural historian, broadcaster and writer.
Shahidha Bari
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Judge

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari is an award winning critic, broadcaster and academic, who teaches at the University of the Arts London and presents a range of arts programmes for the BBC
Rooney Mara as the young Roseanne in the 2016 film adaptation of The Secret Scripture
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The secrets of Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture

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. 

Sarah Waters sits in front of bookshelves and a window.
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Fingersmith at 20: inside the archive with Sarah Waters

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.

Japanese garden with a blossom tree.
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Mapping The Garden of Evening Mists

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.