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Harold Fry, the unassuming hero of Rachel Joyce’s life-affirming story, is a man on a mission – to walk more than 600 miles to save a friend

We’ve compiled a selection of Booker-nominated novels that make a big impact in around 200 pages or less. They may be small, but they’re perfectly formed

This week, The Booker Prize Podcast leaves the confines of the studio for Cheltenham, where James Walton appears in conversation with this year’s shortlistees

With In Ascension longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023, we spoke to Martin MacInnes about the interconnectedness of life – and why arts and sciences belong together 

Broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel talks about how British books have a different smell than North American ones and the importance of intuition when selecting books for the longlist

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1973, The Black Prince is part-thriller, part-love story: a book that explores the intricacies and inconsistencies of human relationships

One UK-based library can win two tickets for their librarians to attend the Booker Prize 2026 ceremony

Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist’s life, and then spirals into a bizarre, existential account of history, philosophy and mathematics

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts – Jo Hamya and James Walton – discuss our August Book of the Month, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981