Readers' questions: watch our video Q&As with the Booker Prize 2022 shortlisted authors

The author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, talks about choose-your-own-adventure books, imagining the afterlife and which of his characters he relates to the most

The author of Glory, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, explains where she gets her ideas from, how she chose her animal characters and whether she felt fear writing about a brutal regime when some of its players are still in power

The author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, talks about mastering different genres and explains how he outlines his fiction and alighted on the book’s final sentence

The author of Treacle Walker, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, talks about writing a short book in a long time, how to get children interested in books and how he ‘switches himself off’ while writing

The author of Small Things Like These, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, talks about how she ends her books, how she chooses her titles and how she invented her main character

The author of Oh William!, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, talks about building her novels together piece by piece, putting grief into words, and what Lucy Barton writes about