Prophet Song by Paul Lynch wins the Booker Prize 2023

At an event at Clarence House for friends of the Booker Prizes, the Queen thanked authors for providing escapism, and wished this year’s shortlistees luck for Sunday’s ceremony

In a keynote speech at the Booker Prize 2023 ceremony, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe revealed how a secret library provided ‘refuge in the world of others’ during her detainment in Iran

Ahead of the Booker Prize 2023 winner ceremony, we gathered your questions from social media and put them to our shortlisted authors 

Caitríona Balfe, Alfred Enoch, Bel Powley, Paterson Joseph, Susan Lynch and Nina Wadia read from the six books on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist in these extraordinary films

Whether you’re new to the shortlist or would like to explore it more deeply, our guides are packed with insights, discussion points and suggestions for further reading
 

Each year, Fellows from the Designer Bookbinders society produce handmade editions of the Booker shortlist. Here, this year’s designers reveal their creations

We asked our friends at MUBI to recommend six great movies to complement this year’s Booker shortlist – plus, join us for live Q&A with the winner and a special film screening

Ahead of a special live Q&A with this year’s Booker winner, and the screening of a film to match their book, we asked our shortlisted authors about their favourite movies

As a new Netflix film adaptation to the 2021 International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel is released, here’s our guide to the book, author and translator 

As a new Netflix film adaptation of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted Hurricane Season is released, here’s our guide to the book, the author, her influences and accolades  

In this extract from her final book, the two-time Booker Prize winner explains how she wanted to create a new sense of history, and reveals her relish for Thomas Cromwell’s company

Patricia Lockwood, shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize for her debut No One Is Talking About This, revisits her favourite Booker Prize winner

In the latest article in our series TBR: The Booker Revisited, we shine a light on a South African novel imbued with the gravitas and violence of an Oedipal tragedy

Advances in AI suggest it may only be a matter of time before machine-generated fiction renders human novelists obsolete. But here’s why that (probably) won’t be the case

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch has won the Booker Prize 2023, with a nightmarish vision of life in a totalitarian Ireland. But it’s far from the first dystopian novel to have been recognised by the Booker judges

Several debut novels have won the Booker Prize, and four more were longlisted in 2023, but the prize has championed fresh talent from the outset

From multi-generational epics to expansive masterpieces, we’ve compiled a selection of novels and immersive literary tomes that stretch to 500 pages or more

From classic toddler tales to immersive YA reads, we’ve selected some of the most-loved by Booker authors to help you share the joy of reading

What’s the book about? Who are the author and translator? What have the critics said? And what are the inspirations behind it? We have all the answers

The author and translator of Time Shelter talk about what makes Bulgarian literature unique, the cultural influences behind the book - and their favourite decades