International Booker Prize 2025: the 'mind-expanding' shortlist has been announced

From small boats to big birds, we’ve pulled together the most interesting facts, trends and details that have emerged in the selection of this year’s International Booker Prize shortlist

Forty years ago, Margaret Atwood’s cautionary tale was published – a novel that would go on to become one of the most defining dystopian works of modern times

Ten years ago, Marlon James won the Booker Prize with his multi-decade epic chronicling the attempted assassination of Bob Marley and its complex aftermath

The author of Orbital, winner of the Booker Prize 2024, on how her novel was 25 years in the making, and the work of translated fiction that haunts her

We asked the Booker Prize 2024 judges to explain what impressed and delighted them most about each book on this year’s shortlist – and why they are relevant to today’s world