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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

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 

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

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

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

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 

Get to know all 13 books on this year’s longlist with these extracts from the opening chapter of each title

We’re offering you the chance to win one of five bundles made up of all 13 longlisted titles in contention for this year’s Booker Prize

Playground explores that last wild place we have yet to colonise and interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity

In a kaleidoscopic narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence ignite and re-ignite as the century unfolds