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Date: 21/09/2023
Type: Feature

Chetna Maroo interview: 'It’s unusual to experience such a clear starting impulse for a story'

With Western Lane shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Chetna Maroo about sport, sisters and unspoken language

Date: 21/09/2023
Type: Feature

Paul Harding interview: 'Without exaggeration, the book was mostly written on Post-it notes'

With This Other Eden shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Paul Harding about the real island that inspired the book, and why his method of writing is like musical improvisation

Date: 16/08/2023
Type: Feature

The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 8: An interview with Marlon James

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts are joined by 2015 Booker Prize-winner Marlon James to discuss the prize’s impact on his career

Date: 21/08/2023
Type: Feature

Tan Twan Eng interview: 'Winning would mean much more than something personal for me'

With The House of Doors longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Tan Twan Eng about beginning with the book’s final sentence – and why it’s harder to write fiction about real people

Date: 21/08/2023
Type: Feature

Sebastian Barry interview: 'When I heard I'd been longlisted, I shed a few tears'

With Old God’s Time longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Sebastian Barry about the importance of dreaming, and why Irish writers do what they do

Date: 08/08/2023
Type: Feature

Quiz: Which book from the Booker Prize 2023 longlist should you read first?

From family dramas to scientific breakthroughs to competitive sport, the Booker Prize 2023 longlist offers a breadth of remarkable fiction. But where to start?

Date: 09/08/2023
Type: Feature

The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 7: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts – Jo Hamya and James Walton – discuss our August Book of the Month, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981

Date: 08/08/2023
Type: Feature

An extract from This Other Eden by Paul Harding

Full of lyricism and power, Paul Harding’s spellbinding novel celebrates the hopes, dreams and resilience of those deemed not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference

Date: 07/08/2023
Type: Feature

An extract from If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

An exhilarating novel-in-stories that pulses with style, heart and barbed humour, while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay cheques

Date: 07/08/2023
Type: Feature

An extract from Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

In her accomplished and unsettling second novel, Sarah Bernstein explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of a singularly unreliable narrator