Speakers: Emily Kasriel, Josh Cohen, Jeremy Gordon, Rachel Lasserson, Catherine Taylor

A lively discussion about the difficulties – and joys – of judging a completely disparate group of fiction and non-fiction books submitted for the prestigious £4,000 JQ Wingate Prize. Shortlisted books:

Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman (Pushkin Press)

Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by Otto Dov Kulka (Allen Lane)

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu (Hogarth)

The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus (Granta)

I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits (Hogarth)

The Summer My Father Died by Yudit Kiss (Telegram (Saqi). Past recipients include Amos Oz, WG Sebald, Howard Jacobson, Zadie Smith and Shalom Auslander.