The Booker Prize 2023 Shortlisted Authors Live at Cheltenham Literature Festival

This week we're bringing you a special episode recorded live at Cheltenham Literature Festival in October. Tune in as James is joined by all six Booker Prize 2023 shortlisted authors and we get to hear all about their books, the varied inspirations behind them and why and how they write.

Reading list:

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

This Other Eden by Paul Harding

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

Chetna Maroo's Western Lane

Paul Lynch's Prophet Song

Paul Murray's The Bee Sting


A full transcript of the episode is available at our website.

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