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Alan Garner is sitting in a high-backed leather porter’s chair right inside the hearth enclosure of an immense fireplace, with a chimney stack stretching up 27ft and a very strange-looking firepit. I duck under a beam to join him. He adds a log to the fire and says: ‘This firepit is made from a disused

A very long list of super short books.

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There is always a near miss and the task before this year’s panel of Booker Prize judges was humongous. In seven months, the panel of judges read an astounding 163 books before zeroing down on the long list of 13. The short list will be announced four days from now and the Booker Prize 2023 winner will be announced in London on November 26

In 2022, we saw Annie Ernaux win the Nobel prize for literature for her uncompromising writing about her experiences. Shehan Karunatilaka won the Book

New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite books of 2022.

Shehan Karunatilaka wins the Booker Prize

The prestigious prize annually recognizes the best novel written in the English and published in the U.K. 

Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka's 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida', a supernatural satire set amid the Sri Lankan civil war, has won the Booker Prize