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Type: Feature
Date: 25 Feb 2025

An extract from There's a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert

In 1980s’ Réunion, monsters lurk beneath the surface of vibrant island life, ready to pounce at the slightest disturbance

Type: Book
Date: 10 Jun 2021

Heaven

Told through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying, this is a haunting novel of the threat of violence that can stalk our teenage years

Type: Book
Date: 11 May 2023

Western Lane

Chetna Maroo's tender and moving debut novel about grief, sisterhood, a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself – and squash

Type: Book
Date: 24 Aug 2023

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch’s fifth novel is the winner of the Booker Prize 2023. A mother faces a terrible choice, in his exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational portrait of a society on the brink

Type: Book
Date: 06 Jul 2023

Study for Obedience

In her accomplished and unsettling second novel, Sarah Bernstein explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of a singularly unreliable narrator

Type: Book
Date: 02 Mar 2023

Old God's Time

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

Type: Book
Date: 12 Oct 2022

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv

Shot through with Kurkov’s unique brand of black humour and vodka-fuelled magic realism, Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv is an affectionate portrait of one of the world’s most intriguing cities

Illustration of woman sitting on the floor looking out the window.

Type: Feature
Date: 23 Apr 2025

11 of the most heartbreaking books from the Booker Library

Sometimes we all need a book that will give us a good cry. These deeply emotional novels from the Booker Prize archives will break your heart – and mend it again

Booker Prize 2024 shortlistees book that changed worldview_teaser

Type: Feature
Date: 15 Oct 2024

The 2024 shortlistees on the book that challenged their worldview

We asked this year’s Booker Prize-shortlisted authors to tell us about the book that altered the way they see the world – and how it shaped their thinking

Type: Feature
Date: 20 Mar 2023

An extract from Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches

Read an extract from Eva Baltasar’s short, brittle novel, Boulder, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2023