Novelist and activist Kit de Waal follows the most prestigious literary award in the English-speaking world – the Booker Prize – in its most extraordinary year.

Filmed around the world in the build-up to the announcement of the 2020 Booker Prize winner, this documentary meets the six authors creating some of the most exciting fiction from around the world; the most diverse mix of authors the Booker has ever seen.

Kit herself is a vocal campaigner for inclusivity in publishing, and she also examines the wider landscape of the publishing industry in the wake of the unprecedented global events of 2020. She meets Bernardine Evaristo, the first black woman to win the prize since its inception in 1969, to explore the issue of diversity in publishing, highlighted by this year’s Black Lives Matter movement. And we hear from members of this year’s judging panel about how the pandemic has affected not only this year’s judging process but also the industry as a whole and the way that the world reads.