John Self

Norwegian playwright and novelist had regularly been tipped for the prize

Booker-longlisted novel is set in a dystopian Ireland, where secret police have emergency powers

‘I felt that a book of this size could be both serious and trivial, earnest and frivolous, comic and tragic, all of those things’

A book arranged broadly chronologically but mainly by theme — Ships, Buildings, Troubles, Tourism

The American novelist and short story writer on idiosyncratic book titles, her preoccupation with grief, and Donald Trump’s refusal to go away

Eye-opening details emerge on ancestral family involvement in Jamaican sugar and slave trades

Writer Yan Ge talks writing her first book in English, living in Ireland and her desire to do stand-up

The writer on his ‘final’ Frank Bascombe novel, why he wants to write ‘useful’ books, and his fantasy president

A rich, topical novel set in the high-stakes world of high-end dining dished up with aplomb

Five novellas and a Doerr-stopper are in contention for the €100,000 prize

Sebastian Barry uses a cocoon of language to magical effect in a tale full of the warnings of mortality

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton on her country’s former prime minister, social media and her new novel Birnam Wood

The Irish author, known for her short stories, has written a debut novel in the prescient milieu of Andy Warhol’s Factory

The American author has had so many books published, across so many genres, he has stopped counting

Dundee poet and one-time jobbing musician on his memoir, mental health, anger, the perspective gained after the death of a parent and a looming type of retirement