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Gaby Wood, Chief Executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, reveals the qualities we are looking for when selecting our judges

Set during the turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed, The Long Song is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it

Winner of the Booker Prize 2022, Shehan Karunatilaka’s rip-roaring epic is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war. Read our extract from the book’s first section

Packed with book recommendations, insights into Booker books past and present, interviews with Booker Prize-nominated authors, exclusive features and competitions, our newsletter has everything you need to discover your next great read.

November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen?

Hanya Yanagihara’s deft depiction of heartbreak becomes a dark examination of the tyranny of memory, the limits of human endurance and the power of friendship

The Booker Prize celebrates the best writers of long-form fiction. Here is a definitive list of Booker-nominated authors and their novels, since the prize’s inception.

The international reaction to Shehan Karunatilka’s Booker Prize win has been universally positive. Here, we round up the best responses

Winning the Booker Prize in 1990, Possession follows two modern-day scholars as they uncover a secret affair between famous fictional poets, all the while falling in love themselves.

In 2020, The Memory Police was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. It’s a haunting fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss