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Samanta Schweblin’s wildly imaginative novel – longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020 – explores the voyeurism and exhibitionism inherent in our digital lives

From teenagers on the brink of adulthood to grown men struggling to process trauma, this year’s longlisted books offer fascinating insights into the male psyche – and bear similarities to other Booker-nominated novels

From Joni Mitchell to Diego Maradona, from a pub in London’s East End to a bookshop in Lagos, pull up a chair at these fantasy gatherings, organised by this year’s authors and judges 

Wildly imaginative and timely, Little Eyes explores the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, and the way our digital lives allow us to observe others – and be observed by them

We asked you to tell us about the book clubs you’re in and you really delivered, sharing the joys of reading alongside other people, both in-person and online. Here’s a selection of your best, most heart-warming book club stories 

The Little Eyes author discusses our complicated relationship with technology, and reveals that an affectionate robot vacuum cleaner helped inspire the novel

Author Vincenzo Latronico on the challenge of writing fiction that reflects the role digital technology plays in our lives, and how Samanta Schweblin does it so successfully

The translator of Little Eyes on the impact of an International Booker Prize nomination, and the person she keeps in mind when translating a work of fiction

We asked the authors nominated for this year’s Booker Prize about the inspirations behind their longlisted works, their favourite books, and where and when they most like to write