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WIT Month: Seven women in translation share their must-reads

Booker Prize 2024 authors

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Interviews with the Booker Prize 2024 longlistees

My friends - Hisham Matar

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Hisham Matar interview: ‘I carried this novel in my head for a decade’

Playground - Richard Powers

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Richard Powers interview: ‘As a child, I was sure I was going to be an oceanographer'

Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner

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Rachel Kushner interview: ‘Reading Alice in Wonderland felt like a secret being deposited’

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

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Sarah Perry interview: ‘Every writer can learn from the plotting of a good crime novelist’

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Rita Bullwinkel interview: ‘I obsessively competed in every sport I could find'

This Strange Eventful History - Claire Messud

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Claire Messud interview: ‘I wanted to explore the history of my father’s family’

Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital

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Samantha Harvey interview: ‘I wanted to write a space pastoral’

Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange

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Tommy Orange interview: ‘I didn’t fall in love with reading until my mid-20s'

BP24 longlist

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Quiz: Which book from the Booker Prize 2024 longlist should you read first?

Wild Houses - Colin Barret

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Colin Barrett interview: 'Becoming a writer was always an abstract notion'

Held - Anne Michaels

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Anne Michaels interview: ‘Every poem is a poem of witness’

James - Percival Everett

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Percival Everett interview: ‘I hope that I have written the novel that Twain did not’

The Safe Keep - Yael Van Der Wouden

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Yael van der Wouden interview: ‘For a long time, my relationship to literature was pretty flat’

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

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Charlotte Wood interview: ‘I wanted nothing trivial, nothing insincere in this book’

Richard Flanagan

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Richard Flanagan interview: Winning the Booker was ‘a catastrophe of good fortune’

BP24 longlist

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Read extracts from the Booker Prize 2024 longlist

BP24 longlist

Competition

Win a set of all 13 books from the Booker Prize 2024 longlist

Playground by Richard Powers

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An extract from Playground by Richard Powers