The International Booker Prize 2025 winner will be announced on Tuesday, 20 May

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

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1986, The Handmaid’s Tale is the dystopian novel that became a phenomenon

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