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As a new Netflix film adaptation of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted Hurricane Season is released, here’s our guide to the book, the author, her influences and accolades  

We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting, writes about Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, a book that’s impossibly gorgeous but hard to keep up with 

We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Sarah Bernstein, author of Study for Obedience, explains how she drew from Marie NDiaye’s pervasive atmosphere of the uncanny 

We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Paul Harding, author of This Other Eden, explains how the moral complexity of Shakespeare’s villains helped him create Matthew Diamond

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts choose a scary and disturbing book for Halloween: Bora Chung’s short story collection Cursed Bunny, translated by Anton Hur

In this extract from her final book, the two-time Booker Prize winner explains how she wanted to create a new sense of history, and reveals her relish for Thomas Cromwell’s company

In 2005, Hilary Mantel emailed her editor Nicholas Pearson the first 40 pages of a new book, which would transform not only her career, but our expectations of historical fiction. Here, he recalls how Wolf Hall came to life

To mark Black History Month, and to shine a spotlight on the many Black authors in the Booker Library, we’ve selected short extracts from 12 novels nominated for the Booker Prize or International Booker Prize – how many can you identify correctly?

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts are joined by George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Booker Prize, to talk about Lincoln in the Bardo, politics, and finding his voice as a writer

From coming-of-age stories to remarkable tales of women at war, we’ve compiled a selection of fiction that pays homage to the Black women authors of the Booker Library, their writing and their experiences