Man Booker Prize 2017

Man Booker Prize 2017 long-list reading guide: The magic of Zadie Smith's Swing Time

Zadie Smith's Swing Time is about two girls on the wrong side of town, who meet early in life and become thick friends after learning they are essentially two peas in an extremely racist pod. | The Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize 2017 long-list reading guide: Reviewing Sebastian Barry's Days Without End

There lurks a sense of unease in the majestic landscape of Sebastian Barry's Days Without End. The air is charged with violence and fear, the smell of blood and death hangs heavy.

Man Booker Prize 2017 long-list reading guide: On Jon McGregor's Reservoir 13

Reservoir 13 is not your average 'teenage girl goes missing in the hills near an unnamed village' whodunnit. It is a different kind of a novel.

Man Booker Prize 2017 long-list reading guide: Ali Smith's Autumn, reviewed

Ali Smith's Autumn, on the Man Booker Prize 2017 longlist, follows 32-year-old art history lecturer Elisabeth Demand living in a post-Brexit England

Man Booker Prize 2017 long-list reading guide: Reviewing Mohsin Hamid's Exit West

Through Exit West, Mohsin Hamid brings to the narrative of refugees and migration a touch of magic realism, the immediacy of spare prose and a convex view of conflict