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A funny, sharp, wonderfully readable novel that takes us to the heart of an obsessive, unpredictable Italian family

Discover our reading guide for Whale, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, a rollercoaster adventure through Korean history and culture

Today, September 21, 2023, the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2023 was announced by the Chair of judges, Esi Edugyan, at an event held at the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery in London
 

Dotti Irving, an important and unique figure behind the Booker Prizes, has announced she’ll be stepping down after 30 years of exceptional service. Along with her gifted team, she has promoted and steered the Booker Prize for well over half its lifetime, forging links all over the world and earning long-standing respect in the publishing industry and beyond.

Max Porter explains the process behind the publication of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, and why it was essential that it reached new readers
 

Featuring the tragicomic adventures of a host of eccentric misfits, these beguiling books will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson – a film director known as a bibliophile as well as an auteur

‘King of kings they called him, and they said, We rejoice in him, we rejoice in his wife and her beauty; they said, We love this country, and then we said, We love this country. We had to rejoice in his newborn son, for longer than we ever would a birth in our own family, his newborn son, in the far-off Palace of Flowers.’

Advances in AI suggest it may only be a matter of time before machine-generated fiction renders human novelists obsolete. But here’s why that (probably) won’t be the case

Read an extract from Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi and translated by Jeremy Tiang, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023