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Date: 25/05/2022
Type: Feature

Maggie Shipstead on A Tale for the Time Being

Maggie Shipstead, author of the 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted Great Circle, on why she loves Ruth Ozeki’s 2013 shortlisted novel A Tale for the Time Being.

Type: Press release

International Booker Prize 2024: Judges announced and submissions now open

The judges for the International Booker Prize 2024 are revealed today, July 13, 2023, as the prize opens for submissions. Read the press release here.

Nine book covers presented in two rows against a background image of a New York City street with a pale blue colour wash over the top

Date: 24/07/2025
Type: Feature

Nine Booker-nominated novels set in New York City

Take a trip to the city that never sleeps with these NYC-set books, which combine the personal and the political, and encompass love, friendship, work and play

Type: Author

Chinua Achebe

The poet, critic and novelist Chinua Achebe came to prominence in 1958 with Things Fall Apart. By 1987 and Anthills of the Savannah, he was a venerated figure

Date: 26/10/2023
Type: Feature

The Booker Prize Indie Bookshop Spotlight competition: Our six winning independent booksellers

This prize season, we’re celebrating indie booksellers across the UK and Ireland. Here, we reveal the winning bookshops of our competition

Date: 18/03/2024
Type: Feature

An extract from Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko

Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, Lost on Me seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity

Type: Judge

Lolly Adefope

Lolly Adefope is a BAFTA-nominated actress. She was named one of Vanity Fair’s Rising Stars of 2025

Date: 08/01/2024
Type: Feature

An extract from Possession by A.S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt’s 1990 Booker Prize-winner is a gloriously exhilarating novel of both wit and romance. Read an extract from January’s Monthly Spotlight here

Type: Content Page

Submissions for the Booker Prize 2025

Submissions are now closed

Date: 24/07/2023
Type: Feature

Meet the Booker Prize 2023 judges: Esi Edugyan, chair of judges

Esi Edugyan talks about a childhood immersed in horror stories - and why she believes there is no such thing as ‘a Booker book’