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To mark World Environment Day, we’ve scoured the Booker Library to find some of the best books that celebrate the natural world and highlight our need to protect it

Music is rarely incidental in a story and often illuminating. This collection of Booker Prize-nominated novels will appeal to book lovers and music lovers alike

In this Man Booker 2018 longlist interview, Donal Ryan tells us how his novel From a Low and Quiet Sea was inspired by real-life events

Read an extract from Vigdis Hjorth’s novel Is Mother Dead?. Translated by Charlotte Borslund it was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

Win one of five copies of our Monthly Spotlight title for February, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag

This week, The Booker Prize Podcast goes to the movies and revisits Thomas Keneally’s 1982 prize-winner, and its silver-screen counterpart

In The Silver Bone, Andrey Kurkov takes inspiration from the real-life archives of crime enforcement agencies in Kyiv, crafting a propulsive narrative that bursts to life with rich historical detail

On this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts revisit the works of two titans of literature, which were in the running for the 1984 prize, and ask – did the right novel win?

The translator of our October Book of the Month talks about the impact of being shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022, the Japanese fiction boom – and why this 20th-century novel speaks to 21st-century readers