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Book of the Month: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
From reading guides and extracts to illuminating features, find out more about Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark here, the 1981 Booker Prize-shortlisted novel
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The Colony
In Audrey Magee's lyrical and brooding fable, two outsiders visit a small island off the west coast of Ireland, with unforeseen and haunting consequences
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka’s second novel won the Booker Prize in 2022. It is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war
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The Book of Mother
Violaine Huisman’s remarkable debut novel is an exquisitely wrought story about a daughter’s inextinguishable love for her magnetic, mercurial mother
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Monthly Spotlight: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2009, The Little Stranger is Sarah Waters’ chilling and vividly rendered ghost story, set in postwar Britain
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If I Survive You
An exhilarating novel-in-stories that pulses with style, heart and barbed humour, while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay cheques
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Boulder
Eva Baltasar demonstrates her pre-eminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world - in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga
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The International Booker Prize 2024 longlist is announced ‘signalling a second “boom” in Latin American fiction’
Today, 11 March, the 2024 longlist for the International Booker Prize, the world’s most significant award for a single work of translated fiction, is announced
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Monthly Spotlight: Last Orders by Graham Swift
Sorrow and resentment mingle with passion and regret in Graham Swift’s novel, which won the Booker Prize in 1996
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Monthly Spotlight: The Van by Roddy Doyle
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991, the third novel in Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown trilogy follows two old friends working in a fast-food van against the backdrop of the 1990 football World Cup