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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jun 2006

Theft: A Love Story

Shifting from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, this is Peter Carey’s brilliant and moving story of art, fraud, friendship and redemption

Type: Book
Date: 04 Jul 2012

Communion Town

Through ten subtly linked stories, Sam Thompson captures the essence of a city’s life in this accomplished, stylish debut

Type: Book
Date: 02 Oct 2014

A Brief History of Seven Killings

In a dazzling display of masterful storytelling, Marlon James explores the extraordinary backstory to the attempted assassination of Bob Marley

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 2001

Atonement

A young girl’s imagination runs riot with far-reaching and devastating consequences, in Ian McEwan’s masterpiece of metafiction

Type: Book
Date: 26 Oct 2017

The Stolen Bicycle

Wu Ming-Yi’s novel about bicycles, elephants and war - which is also a startlingly intimate meditation on memory, family and home

Type: Book
Date: 04 Feb 2016

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout’s moving story shows how a simple hospital visit illuminates the tender relationship between an estranged mother and daughter

Type: Book
Date: 06 May 2021

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut’s extraordinary imagination digs deep into the territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness

The book Audition is lying on a desk next to a glass of water and an image of Katie Kitamura

Type: Feature
Date: 14 Aug 2025

Katie Kitamura interview: ‘As a culture, we’re becoming quite bad at holding a contradiction in our heads’

The author of Audition, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, talks about her love of Steinbeck and Dreiser, and how almost every book changes the way she thinks about the world

Type: Feature
Date: 18 Aug 2026

Douglas Stuart interview: 'When we talk about class or sexuality, our rural places are often overlooked'

The author of John of John, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026, on studying his brother’s LPs, and finding a rich, inspiring culture on the Isle of Harris

Book covers on a background of green tinted book pages

Type: Feature
Date: 13 Jan 2026

11 of the best debut novels that were nominated for the Booker Prize

Discover some of the best Booker Prize-nominated debut novels that defied expectations