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A mother faces a terrible choice, in Paul Lynch’s exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational portrait of a society on the brink

Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on The Nick of Time by Francis King: a state of the nation novel by an author who was finally nominated, aged 80

With many writers from the region already part of the Booker Prize canon, a new wave of powerful voices is driving a ‘second boom’ in LatAm literature in translation

Dark and poetic, She Who Remains is a novel about identity, gender, love, freedom, and societal norms

In the latest article in our series TBR: The Booker Revisited, we shine a light on a South African novel imbued with the gravitas and violence of an Oedipal tragedy

Explore Shehan Karunatilaka’s 2022 Booker Prize-winning novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida with your book club using our guide and discover why the judges said it was ‘full of ghosts, gags and a deep humanity’.

In this personal essay, Michèle Roberts pays tribute to the late A.S. Byatt and praises her 1990 Booker-winning novel

Read the opening from Percival Everett’s striking novel, which combines an unnerving murder mystery with a powerful condemnation of racism and police violence. 

How Late It Was, How Late may have divided critics – and judges – but it remains one of the most influential Booker winners and raised prescient questions about decolonisation and self-determination 

For over 30 years, Fellows from the Designer Bookbinders society have created unique hand-bound editions of each title on the Booker shortlist. Here, this year’s designers unveil their beautiful, bespoke books