Read The Remains of the Day

Kathy, Ruth and Tommy at Hailsham and what they were made for.

Thomas Cromwell rises under Henry VIII in the present tense; Mantel's first Booker.

An artificial friend watches over a sick girl; Ishiguro after the Nobel.

Willie Lincoln's ghost and a graveyard chorus on one night in 1862; Saunders' Booker.

Saleem Rushdie, born at the stroke of Indian independence, and a thousand children like him; the Booker of Bookers.

A Cape Town professor loses his job and moves to his daughter's farm; Coetzee's second Booker.

Fragments about travel, anatomy and a Chopin's heart smuggled to Warsaw; Tokarczuk's Booker International.

A Seoul woman stops eating meat and her family cannot bear it; the Booker International that led to Han Kang's Nobel.