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‘my brother sends his best says Nemanja’s brother and shoots his gun just once… my father’s warm body tumbles into the dead leaves, his big eyes fixed on him, my father’s big eyes locked into Nemanja’s brother’s eyes, his strong hands grab my father and turn him to the setting sun’ 

Damon Galgut’s The Promise is tonight, 3 November, named winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction at a ceremony at Broadcasting House’s Radio Theatre

Alan Hollinghurst’s 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel defines a decade, as a young man navigates a world of privilege to which he can never truly belong 

As a musical based on Rachel Joyce’s longlisted novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry opens in London’s West End, here are 12 Booker-nominated books that have successfully made the jump from page to stage

‘The orchard, vibrantly green and with adobe walls, backed up against the village at one end and bordered the river at the other. It was an orchard mostly of sweet and sour cherries. The villa, a mixture of rustic and urban architecture, sat in the middle of it.’ 

Barbara Pym’s compassionate and funny novel follows four people in late middle-age with different eccentricities, but the same problem: loneliness

Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Not A River is the finest expression yet of Selva Almada’s compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina