Archie Flanagan was one of the tens of thousands of prisoners of war forced to build the supply line for the Japanese army in the 1940s. He survived, and now his son has turned his story into the Booker-longlisted ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’

There isn’t a dud note in Richard Flanagan’s Homeric new novel

Australian novelist Tim Winton has produced a profound tale of a last stab at salvation in ‘Eyrie’