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Andrew O'Hagan

Author of novels and stories for the London Review of Books and the New Yorker.

Andrew O'Hagan has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times.

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"It's Ottessa, bitch."

By Ottessa

Or, to quote Oliver Twist, "Please bitch, can I have some more?" Yes. There is always more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRNGDCJKceE

Susan Hill's Substack

Writing books, reading books, being haunted by The Woman in Black..and other life events

Susan Hill was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1972, for her novel The Bird of Night.

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Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

Elif Shafak was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, for her novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World. She judged the International Booker Prize in 2017.

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Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson

I have written over twenty books, including seventeen novels, and won the Booker Prize for fiction. Words are my faith, novels my passion, great novelists my paragons of truth. You might think I should get out more. You are right.

Howard Jacobson has been nominated for the Booker Prize four times, and won the 2010 prize with his novel The Finkler Question.

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Subtraction

By Charlotte Wood

An archive of eight essays on the creative process - and from September 2024, occasional announcements about Charlotte's work, news & events.

Charlotte Wood was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, for her novel Stone Yard Devotional.

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In the Writing Burrow

By Margaret Atwood

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

Margaret Atwood has won the Booker Prize twice and been nominated six times.

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Little Intimacies

By Sophie Mackintosh

A newsletter by @sophmackintosh. Small essays & sometimes fiction.

Sophie Macintosh was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2018, for her novel The Water Cure.

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Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

George Saunders won the Booker Prize in 2017 for Lincoln in the Bardo.

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Jeanette Winterson: Mind Over Matter

By jeanette winterson

Imagination. Ideas. Creativity. Conversation. This is the life of the Mind.

Jeanette Winterson was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019, for her novel Frankissstein.

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Salman's Sea of Stories

By Salman Rushdie

An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.

Salman Rushdie has won the Booker Prize once in 1981, and been nominated seven times.

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sweater weather

By Brandon

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

Brandon Taylor was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020, for his novel Real Life.

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