‘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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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
We’ve created a bespoke shortlist for the winners of our Christmas competition, each containing six titles from the Booker Library.
Several debut novels have won the Booker Prize, and four more were longlisted in 2023, but the prize has championed fresh talent from the outset
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020, The Memory Police is a haunting meditation on loss from one of Japan’s greatest writers. Read an extract from our October Book of the Month here
The story of an intense friendship between the narrator and his close childhood friend, Fanny, who suffers from profound psychological disorders
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Reading guide: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
The winner of the Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is an intricate portrait of class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s Britain
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An extract from The Colony by Audrey Magee
In Audrey Magee’s lyrical and brooding fable, The Colony, two outsiders visit an island off the west coast of Ireland, with unforeseen and haunting consequences
For decades, Booker-nominated authors have been tangled up in criminal activity. But why has a traditional crime novel never won the prize?