Join Adjoa Andoh, Aisling Bea, Jessica Brown Findlay, Toby Stephens, Michelle de Swarte and Osy Ikhile read from the six shortlisted books for the International Booker Prize 2023
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What our judges said about the Booker Prize 2024 longlist
Wondering which of the 13 Booker Prize 2024 longlisted titles to read first? We asked our judges to summarise each book – and say what they loved about them
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An extract from If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
An exhilarating novel-in-stories that pulses with style, heart and barbed humour, while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay cheques
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Reading Guide: Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Explore NoViolet Bulawayo’s Booker Prize 2022 shortlisted novel Glory with your book club using our guide and discover why the judges said it was ‘a magical crossing of the African continent’.
Watch David Jonsson, Eleanor Tomlinson, Tobias Menzies, Anya Chalotra, Antonia Thomas and Dua Lipa read extracts from the six shortlisted books
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Sarah Bernstein
Sarah Bernstein is a Canadian writer and scholar who was born in Montreal and now lives in the Scottish Highlands, where she teaches literature and creative writing
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Midnight's Children
Saleem’s life is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror the course of modern India at its most impossible, in Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece
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An extract from On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan’s devastating novel, about the ways in which the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007
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Paul Lynch on the writers who have influenced him the most
From Faulkner to Melville, Paul Lynch discusses the writers who capture the strangeness of the human condition and the eternal truths that define us
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An extract from Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
In his beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite what it seems, Sebastian Barry explores what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us