Authors on the shortlist for this year's Man Booker prize talk about their nominated books.
The inspiration for the starting point of McCarthy's oblique novel came from a dream.
Yanagihara's epic American novel has drawn huge critical acclaim and some controversy.
James's novel offers a cacophonous exploration of Jamaica in the 1970s.
Sahota’s novel brings the story of Indian migrants in Britain into sharp focus.
Tyler’s finely tuned portrait of domestic life across several generations.
African oral tradition is melded with the novel in Obioma’s tragic tale of four brothers.