Speakers: Tahmima Anam, Samantha Ellis, Hugo Rifkind, Jonathan Wittenberg

Find out who is in the running to win 2016’s prestigious JQ Wingate Prize as this year’s judges, Tahmima Anam, Samantha Ellis, Hugo Rifkind and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, discuss the shortlist with JQ editor Nicola Christie. Past winners include Amos Oz, David Grossman, Zadie Smith, Imre Kertész, Oliver Sacks, WG Sebald and Shalom Auslander.

The 2016 long-listed books are: The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky; The Girl from Human Street by Roger Cohen; The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron; Ishmael’s Oranges by Claire Hajaj; Mr and Mrs Disraeli by Daisy Hay; J by Howard Jacobson; The Life of Saul Bellowby Zachary Leader; Between Gods by Alison Pick; The Impossible Exile by George Protchnik; The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild; The Liberation of the Campsby Dan Stone and KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann.