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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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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing world through the eyes of a unique narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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Monthly Spotlight: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan’s achingly moving novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007, is a masterful study of miscommunication, and the life-changing consequences of words left unsaid
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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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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: 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
Whether you’re new to the shortlist and wondering where to start, or would like to explore it more deeply, our guides are packed with insights and discussion points
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Monthly Spotlight
Discover our ‘Monthly Spotlight’ series – a month-long celebration of a hand-picked selection of nominated titles from the Booker Library