We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Paul Harding, author of This Other Eden, explains how the moral complexity of Shakespeare’s villains helped him create Matthew Diamond

We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Sarah Bernstein, author of Study for Obedience, explains how she drew from Marie NDiaye’s pervasive atmosphere of the uncanny 

We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting, writes about Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, a book that’s impossibly gorgeous but hard to keep up with 

From Faulkner to Melville, Paul Lynch discusses the writers who capture the strangeness of the human condition and the eternal truths that define us