'Vibrant and electric’ shortlist for the Booker Prize 2023 is announced

As the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist is announced, we’ve pulled together the most interesting facts and trends that have emerged in this year’s selection 

We’re offering you the chance to win one of five bundles made up of all six shortlisted titles in contention for this year’s Booker Prize 

We asked the Booker Prize 2023 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

Whether you’re new to the books on the shortlist or would like to explore them more deeply, our guides are packed with insights from critics, judges, authors, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading
 

From big names to fresh voices to modern classics that have stood the test of time, which is the greatest Booker shortlist in the prize’s 54-year history?

Our new Book Club, hosted on Facebook, is a place for readers everywhere to discuss the 2023 shortlist, access exclusive content and win a range of prizes, including tickets to the winner ceremony

From The Bone People to Shuggie Bain, several debut novels have won the Booker Prize, and four more are longlisted this year. As Max Liu writes here, 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

Several titles in the Booker archives foreground the craft of writing and present multi-layered narrative experiences which challenge storytelling norms. Here are some of the best…

Muriel Spark was a writer of astonishing productivity, writing 22 titles which were varied in subject matter. So which one should you read first?

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016, His Bloody Project reveals the provisional nature of truth through a fictional 19th-century triple murder in a remote Scottish crofting community

Win a pair of Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Booker-nominated novels, including our September Book of the Month, His Bloody Project, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag

In our monthly series, ‘TBR: The Booker Revisited’ Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on hidden gems from the Booker Library. This month’s selection is A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor, a book about love and its multifarious manifestations

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, writes Ian Leslie

25 years after winning the Booker for Amsterdam, Ian McEwan revisits his journals and talks about the inspirations behind the book, in an exclusive interview
 

In our monthly series, ‘TBR: The Booker Revisited’ Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on hidden gems from the Booker Library. This month’s selection is equal parts macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait

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

Watch the actor Toby Stephens read an extract from Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel, winner of the International Booker Prize 2023

The author and translator of Time Shelter talk about what makes Bulgarian literature unique, the cultural influences behind the book - and the decade to which they’d return if they could

As Time Shelter wins the International Booker Prize 2023, here’s what fans and critics are saying about Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel’s timely win

We believe there is a natural union between international fiction and film. Here, we recommend 6 great movies to complement this year’s International Booker shortlist

Discover our reading guides for the shortlisted books and novels on the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist, packed with insights and discussion points

Ahead of International Booker Prize 2023 ceremony, we spoke to the authors and translators about their novels on this year’s shortlist. Here’s what they said…

A year after Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize 2022 for Tomb of Sand, they talk about how the prize expanded their world