From intimate gatherings to bustling festivals and unique installations, we celebrate the best in contemporary fiction at these UK events and pop-ups featuring our prizes’ authors and books

Edinburgh International Book Festival   

International Booker Prize Administrator Fiammetta Rocco will be joined by Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi, winners of the 2025 prize, as well as one of the judges, writer and Publishing Director of Wasafiri, Sana Goyal, as they discuss the winning book, Heart Lamp, and the art of translation.  

Where: Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF 

When: Friday, 15 August 2025, 12:15pm 

Tickets: on sale from 21 June via the Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Banu Mushtaq Deepa Bhasthi winners International Booker Prize 2025

The Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist Announcement

Get a glimpse behind the judging room doors of the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction, with live readings by special guests.

Join the judges of the Booker Prize 2025, Chair Roddy Doyle and his fellow panellists Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power and Kiley Reid, as they announce the shortlist for this year’s prize live on stage.

The judges are in conversation with Booker Prize Foundation Chief Executive Gaby Wood for this unique evening, which marks the first announcement of the shortlist at a public event.

Where: Royal Festival Hall, London, SE1 8XX

When: Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 7.30pm

Tickets: from £20, on sale now via the Southbank Centre

A group portrait of the Booker Prize 2025 judges. Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Roddy Doyle and Kiley Reid sit on a red velvet sofa, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Power standing behind them.