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Will Poulter reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Date: 12/10/2024
Type: Feature

Watch the Booker Prize 2024 shortlist films

Well-known faces from Harry Potter, Sex Education, Game of Thrones, The Bear, His Dark Materials and more star in our new films showcasing the 2024 shortlist

Collection of vertical standing books in coloured vintage covers.

Date: 14/02/2024
Type: Feature

Which novels in the Booker Prize archives should be considered classics?

Arguments over the definition of ‘classic’ novels persist, but there are plenty of works in the Booker Library that are deserving of the label

Composite image showing the covers of all 10 winners of the International Booker Prize since 2016, alongside a large number 10

Date: 11/02/2026
Type: Feature

Explore the 10 winning books from a decade of the International Booker Prize

As the International Booker celebrates 10 years in its current form, we look back on a decade of powerful prize winners, translated from 10 different languages

Date: 07/08/2023
Type: Feature

An extract from The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

Based on real events, the three-time Booker Prize-nominated Tan Twan Eng’s masterful novel of public morality and private truth examines love and betrayal under the shadow of Empire

Date: 18/03/2024
Type: Feature

An extract from Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann

Jenny Erpenbeck’s intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history

Young people reading, world map in the background

Date: 13/04/2023
Type: Feature

Generation TF: who is really reading translated fiction in the UK

Data compiled by Nielsen for the Booker Prize Foundation shows that readers of translated fiction in the UK are significantly younger than fiction readers generally

Date: 19/10/2021
Type: Book

Oh William!

Bestselling author Elizabeth Strout returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any time

Date: 29/11/2022
Type: Feature

Seeing G.: John Berger, the Black Panthers and the Booker, 50 years on

Jo Hamya revisits the prize’s most controversial moment, reveals what happened to Berger’s prize money and explores the legacy and impact of his novel, G.

Date: 15/12/2021
Type: Feature

Knowledge of Angels: A Booker Christmas Quiz

Discover the answers to our Christmas quiz: Knowledge of Angels which deep dives to the Booker Library and tested your novel knowledge over Noël

Date: 04/08/2025
Type: Feature

An extract from One Boat by Jonathan Buckley

‘Then I saw the town, and the words arose in my head, as clearly as if they were being spoken: This will be the place’