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Get to know the Booker Prize 2025 judges
Roddy Doyle, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power and Kiley Reid reveal how they’ve made more time for reading and why talking about…
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Summer reading special
We’ve pooled together some of our best reading recommendations for the long hot summer ahead – so dip in and find your new favourite novel
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Discover our Monthly Spotlight for July: Happy Stories, Mostly
This month, we explore Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s tragicomic short story collection – a book that centres queer experiences and blends the everyday and…
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June 2025

We’d like to know your best book-club stories
Share your best book-club stories with us for an upcoming article on the Booker Prizes website
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Meet the judges for the International Booker Prize 2026
The panel for next year’s International Booker Prize will be chaired by award-winning author Natasha Brown, who is joined by Marcus du Sautoy, Sophie…
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Your weekly edit
In the world of the Booker Prizes this week: reading recommendations for music lovers; seven Booker-nominated books with a sporting edge; plus, our team…
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Your weekly edit
In the world of the Booker Prizes this week: our shortest shortlist revisited; books that are perfect for foodies; fictional fathers, ranked; plus…
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Discover our Monthly Spotlight for June: Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
This month, we head to coastal Spain and dive into a searing novel that explores the complex relationship between mother and daughter, carer and…
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May 2025

Your weekly edit
In the world of the Booker Prizes this week: books for Wes Anderson fans, books about India written by women, unlikely fictional friendships, books of…
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Heart Lamp wins the International Booker Prize 2025
A collection of 12 short stories by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, has tonight won this year’s International Booker Prize
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Your weekly edit
In the world of the Booker Prizes this week: we catch up with last year’s International Booker Prize winners; this year’s shortlistees share what makes…
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Introducing our Monthly Spotlight for May: The Overstory by Richard Powers
This month, we immerse ourselves in a remarkable novel that explores our entangled relationships with trees and each other
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