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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

Caitríona Balfe, Alfred Enoch, Bel Powley, Paterson Joseph, Susan Lynch and Nina Wadia read from the six books on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist in these extraordinary films

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts revisit a book originally published in Japanese in the 1990s, which resonated with a whole new audience when translated into English over twenty years later

The bestselling art historian and author of The Story of Art Without Men shares her insights into several paintings of great women authors, from Mary Shelley to Zadie Smith 

The translator of our October Book of the Month talks about the impact of being shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022, the Japanese fiction boom – and why this 20th-century novel speaks to 21st-century readers

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020, The Memory Police is a haunting meditation on loss from one of Japan’s greatest writers. Read an extract from our October Book of the Month here

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, The Memory Police is an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan’s greatest writers

In 2020, The Memory Police was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. It’s a haunting fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss

Win one of five bundles including a copy of our October Book of the Month, The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag