‘I was lucky enough to perform Janina in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and if you haven't read that book, you must read it’
We caught up with Kathryn Hunter on the set of our Booker Prize 2026 shortlist films to ask for her book recommendations.
Books mentioned:
📖 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
📖 A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
📖 Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
📖 Eurotrash by Christian Kracht
📖 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
📖 Air by Christian Kracht
Watch Kathryn perform an extract from the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted novel, The End of Everything here: youtube.com/watch?v=b9J2o2QhdSQ
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