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An extract from Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
‘He’s barely twenty years of age, but he goes shuffling down the hallway in his stocking feet with all the spryness of a care-home resident’
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The Booker Prize 2025 judges and longlisted authors describe their dream book clubs
From Joni Mitchell to Diego Maradona, from a pub in London’s East End to a bookshop in Lagos, pull up a chair at these fantasy gatherings, organised by this year’s authors and judges
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An extract from The Witch by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump
‘When my daughters turned twelve I initiated them into the mysterious powers. Mysterious not so much in that they didn’t know those powers existed, or in that I’d kept them secret (I hid nothing from my daughters, since we were of the same sex)’
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An extract from Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
In Itamar Vieira Junior’s fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil’s poorest region, an act of shuddering violence binds two sisters together forever
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Perfection
A taut, spare sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence – scathing and affecting in equal measure
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Eurotrash
A jaded writer takes his spiky mother and her ill-gotten wealth on a road trip in this tragicomic and absurd semi-autobiographical novel
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Reading guide: Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn
In modern-day Caracas, a part-time teacher is tasked with turning a great family home into a shelter for the dogs left behind by the elites who have fled the city
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Reading guide: Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko
A funny, sharp, wonderfully readable novel that takes us to the heart of an obsessive, unpredictable Italian family
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Reading guide: Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan, translated by Chi-Young Kim
Discover our reading guide for Whale, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, a rollercoaster adventure through Korean history and culture
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An extract from The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay
‘Maybe this is the last time he will walk down the familiar corridor as the man called Noon Merckem, that door there on the left with those welcoming panes of glass could mean the end of his existence, weak in the knees like a man being dragged to the gallows, that’s how he feels in this instant’