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With Reservoir Bitches longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, we spoke to its author and translators about Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes and their favourite Spanish-language authors
With Case Study longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, we spoke to Graeme Macrae Burnet about his nomination and what winning the prize would mean to him
With Perfection shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, we spoke to its author and translator about writing a book almost completely made of descriptions, and why translations aren’t next-best-things
With There’s a Monster Behind the Door longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, we spoke to its author and translators about Cyrano de Bergerac, rap music and the books that changed their worldview
We are looking for children who are: able to read the eight shortlisted books between November 2026 and January 2027; passionate about stories and reading; confident to talk about what they have read and enthuse other readers; able to consider other people’s points of view and work together in a group; and who are imaginative and curious about the world.
As Paul Lynch becomes the fifth Irish writer to win the Booker Prize, here’s the lowdown on his winning novel, Prophet Song
On The Booker Prize Podcast this week, we revisit Sally Rooney’s literary blockbuster, a novel that was longlisted in 2018 and went on to capture hearts across the world
We spoke to Maddie Mortimer about Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies and the playfulness of poetry, her mother’s diaries and finding inspiration in movies
The author of The Riders on creating characters who feel like family, the force of weather and geography in fiction, and how being a parent has shaped him as a writer
We asked the International Booker Prize 2024 judges to explain what impressed and delighted them most about each book on this year’s shortlist – and why they are relevant to today’s world
