Yvvette Edwards discusses A Cupboard Full of Coats

Yvvette Edwards reads from her Man Booker Prize longlisted novel, explains how she developed her characters, and discusses some of the key themes in the book.

Julian Barnes wins the Man Booker Prize!

Bookies’ favourite Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Sense of an Ending, published by Jonathan Cape.

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A L Kennedy, John Burnside, Richard Beard and a Booker Prize debate…

Who is Lilly Bere?

Earlier this month we posted a great Q & A with Sebastian Barry, author of the Booker longlisted On Canaan’s Side, and his Faber editor, Angus Cargill. Now we have a couple of films of the author himself, filmed at his home in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Pigeon English Special #2!

Watch an interview with Stephen Kelman, author of Pigeon English, and download the Reading Guide.

Pigeon English Special #1!

A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English, recently longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.

Sebastian Barry: On Canaan’s Side

On Canaan’s Side is the hugely enjoyable new novel from Sebastian Barry, author of the Costa-winning The Secret Scripture. The novel has been longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Read an interview with the author.

Open A Cupboard Full of Coats

Read an extract from A Cupboard Full of Coats, Yvvette Edwards’ first novel, which has just been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Read it carefully, we’ll be asking questions on our sister website, Bookdiva, on Monday!

Howard Jacobson wins the Booker Prize 2010

Jacobson’s The Finkler Question has become the first ‘comic’ novel to win the Man Booker Prize and a cheque for £50,000 in a split 3-2 vote.