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How to read like a Booker Prize judge – according to Chris Power
From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, here are eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books
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Nine Booker-nominated novels featuring strong female friendships
The connection between close friends can feel like a superpower, but it can be devastating when things go wrong. These novels explore the joys and complexities of female friendship
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Kiran Desai interview: ‘I wanted to write a present-day romance with an old-fashioned beauty’
The author of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, talks about her love of The Wind in the Willows and how Latin American writers have influenced her
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Benjamin Wood interview: ‘I used to be fussy about the conditions I needed for writing, but then I had children’
The author of Seascraper, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, discusses feeling compelled to write about the region where he grew up, and reveals that he wrote the novel on a churchyard bench
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David Szalay interview: ‘I wanted to write about what it’s like to be a living body in the world’
The author of Flesh, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, reflects on the most inspiring books from his youth, his love of Samuel Pepys’s diaries, and why 6am is his best time to write
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Andrew Miller interview: ‘I’ll write anywhere, with anything, on anything’
The author of The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, explains what inspired his novel, and names the books and writers that have influenced him over the years
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Ben Markovits interview: ‘I wanted to write about a certain period of family life coming to an end’
The author of The Rest of Our Lives, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, on writing about middle age, an anthology that inspired him, and the book club that gave him a taste for Philip Roth
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Susan Choi interview: ‘Reading a great book feels like being dropped onto an alien planet’
The author of Flashlight, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, on being haunted by childhood memories of a trip to Japan, and the richness of short novels
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Tash Aw interview: ‘I’ve wanted to write this novel for years – some books have a long gestation period’
The author of The South, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, reflects on the inspirations behind the novel, the books that shaped him, and his need for peace, quiet and coffee in order to write
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Natasha Brown interview: ‘I think poetry makes for lively book club discussions’
The author of Universality, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, talks about the essay that made her want to become a writer and how she can make a makeshift writing desk pretty much anywhere