The Man Booker prize, which is to be awarded next week, has been enlivened by the claim that a rival prize for fiction is going to be set up next year.

In the latest in a series of interviews with Man Booker shortlisted authors, arts correspondent Rebecca Jones speaks to Carol Birch about her historical novel Jamrach's Menagerie.

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