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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’
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The Children’s Booker Prize 2027
Submissions for the Children's Booker Prize 2027 are now closed. The three adult judges have been announced, and a UK-wide search for three child judges is underway
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The Promise wins 2021 Booker Prize
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
Thirty years after her death, Booker Prize-winning author John Banville returns to Caroline Blackwood’s Great Granny Webster, her wickedly funny portrait of a family in decline
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An extract from The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
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
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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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12 Booker-nominated books that have been adapted for the stage
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
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Avni Doshi Q&A
Avni Doshi reveals how Burnt Sugar came together ‘over many years and many drafts’, and talks about how her background in contemporary art influences her writing.