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Samantha Harvey interview: ‘I wanted to write a space pastoral’
The author of Orbital, winner of the Booker Prize 2024, on how her novel was 25 years in the making, and the work of translated fiction that haunts her
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Tommy Orange interview: ‘I didn’t fall in love with reading until my mid-20s'
The author of Wandering Stars, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about the impact of his cultural heritage on his storytelling, and his journey from reader to writer
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Quiz: Which book from the Booker Prize 2024 longlist should you read first?
From blackly comic page-turners to multigenerational epics to meditations on the pain of exile, this year’s longlisted books showcase the finest in fiction. But where should you start?
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Colin Barrett interview: 'Becoming a writer was always an abstract notion'
The author of Wild Houses, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about his book’s small-town Irish setting, and the author who inspired him to write about the world he knew
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Anne Michaels interview: ‘Every poem is a poem of witness’
The author of Held, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about how her novel explores the conflation of science with technology, and the books that have changed the way she thinks about the world
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Percival Everett interview: ‘I hope that I have written the novel that Twain did not’
The author of James, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, on how he sees himself as being in conversation with the creator of Huckleberry Finn, and the skills he learnt from reading Tristram Shandy
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Yael van der Wouden interview: ‘For a long time, my relationship to literature was pretty flat’
The author of The Safekeep, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about reimagining personal and national narratives, and the book from last year’s Booker shortlist that she can’t get out of her head
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Charlotte Wood interview: ‘I wanted nothing trivial, nothing insincere in this book’
The author of Stone Yard Devotional, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about finding inspiration in personal upheaval, and the stories that shaped her childhood
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Richard Flanagan interview: Winning the Booker was ‘a catastrophe of good fortune’
Ten years since he won the Booker, the author reflects on the responsibility he felt when writing The Narrow Road to the Deep North, growing up in a house with almost no books – and his love of translated fiction
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Read extracts from the Booker Prize 2024 longlist
Get to know all 13 books on this year’s longlist with these extracts from the opening chapter of each title