TBR: The Booker Revisited

In our monthly series, ‘TBR: The Booker Revisited’ Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on hidden gems from the Booker Library. This month’s selection is A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor, a book about love and its multifarious manifestations

In our monthly series, ‘TBR: The Booker Revisited’ Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on hidden gems from the Booker Library. This month’s selection is equal parts macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait

Peter Ho Davies’s 2007 Booker-longlisted novel explores conflicting notions of national pride and shame, belonging and alienation

Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on The Nick of Time by Francis King: a state of the nation novel by an author who was finally nominated, aged 80

Lucy Scholes revisits The Lost Father by Marina Warner, the author’s third novel which was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1988

Lucy Scholes takes a closer look at Ladivine, an unsettling masterpiece from the precociously talented French writer Marie NDiaye, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize

Lucy Scholes returns to 1970 to cast a fresh eye over Shirley Hazzard’s second novel, described by the author as ‘a love letter to Naples’