Meet the six authors up for this year’s Booker Prize, as they read from and discuss their shortlisted books in conversation with Ellah Wakatama.

The Booker Prize is the world’s most significant award for the best sustained work of fiction written in English by authors from anywhere in the world, and published in the UK and/or Ireland.

It has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades.

On the eve of the Booker Prize ceremony, hear from the six shortlisted authors in the running for this year’s £50,000 prize at this popular annual event.

This year’s shortlisted books are:
James by Percival Everett, published by Mantle
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, published by Jonathan Cape
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner, published by Jonathan Cape
Held by Anne Michaels, published by Bloomsbury Publishing
The Safekeep by Yael van de Wouden, published by Viking
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood, published by Sceptre