Esteemed Canadian novelist Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi was a global phenomenon: selling 15 million copies worldwide, publishing in over 50 territories, spending more than a year on major bestseller charts, and adapted by Ang Lee in a four Academy Award-winning adaptation.

It was just his second novel, but it set the tone of Martel’s wider oeuvre: powerful, inventive fiction with a deeply philosophical approach to life’s big questions.

His major new novel Son of Nobody bridges the 3000-year gap between a Trojan War soldier and a modern-day Oxford scholar to explore the universality of homesickness, regret, ambition, love and grief.

Paula Morris meets him to discuss the novel expected to be one of 2026’s biggest books.

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