The Booker Prize 2022

The story so far: As the Father of the Nation addresses a huge crowd in Jidada Square, a group of protestors rise up to call for the return of their country’s ‘disappeared’

The story so far: Jim and Ed, two detectives investigating a series of strange murders in Money, Mississippi, meet Mama Z, a local centenarian who has been compiling records of every lynching in the US

The story so far: Joe Coppock forges an unlikely friendship with a mysterious wanderer named Treacle Walker and is introduced to an ancient bog man, Thin Amren

The story so far: Lucy Barton, a successful writer living in New York, remembers her daughter’s illness and the break-up of her first marriage

The story so far: Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office

The story so far: Christmas 1985 in a small Irish town. Bill Furlong, a coalman, revisits the local convent with his delivery - and makes a shocking discovery

The story so far: Jim and Ed, two detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, are investigating a series of strange murders

The story so far: The Father of the Nation, an elderly, charismatic horse, is the ruler of the war-torn land of Jidada. Crowds gather as he arrives to address the masses

The story so far: Lucy Barton recalls the moment she feared her first husband, William, would leave her - and how she eventually left him

The story so far: Joe Coppock, a solitary, partially-sighted child, explores the local countryside in a vivid dream

The story so far: Coalman Bill Furlong visits a local convent and is disturbed by an encounter with a group of girls at its training school

The story so far: Maali Almeida, a war photographer, has been killed. In the afterlife, he has ‘seven moons’ to find out who murdered him, while, in the real world, local detectives must first find the rest of his body