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Type: Book
Date: 01 Aug 2024

The Book of Disappearance

What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Ibtisam Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel

Type: Feature
Date: 24 Sep 2022

A glimpse behind the scenes: The Booker Prize at 50

Gaby Wood, director of the Booker Prize Foundation, explains how the prizes were established, what they stand for and how they have evolved

Senegalese riflemen on the French Front in France during World War I in 1915

Type: Feature
Date: 03 Feb 2026

Reading guide: At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis

A visceral, haunting novel that highlights the terror and gore of the First World War

Type: Feature
Date: 25 May 2023

The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard: A jewel of a coming-of-age drama

Lucy Scholes returns to 1970 to cast a fresh eye over Shirley Hazzard’s second novel, described by the author as ‘a love letter to Naples’

Type: Feature
Date: 21 Mar 2023

An extract from Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey

Guadalupe Nettel’s fourth novel Still Born, which is shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, explores one of life’s most consequential decisions

Sarah Waters sits in front of bookshelves and a window.

Type: Feature
Date: 15 Nov 2022

Fingersmith at 20: inside the archive with Sarah Waters

Dastardly plots, the Victorian underworld and the British Library porn desk. Sarah Waters gives an exclusive insight into ‘the untidiness that goes into writing a novel’. Watch our interview and browse her Fingersmith papers.

Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi at the Southbank Centre International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist readings

Type: Press release

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, wins the International Booker Prize 2025

Today, May 20, Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi is announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025

Type: Feature
Date: 31 Jul 2023

Why you should read Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood

In our monthly series, ‘TBR: The Booker Revisited’ Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on hidden gems from the Booker Library. This month’s selection is equal parts macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait

Type: Feature
Date: 25 Aug 2022

Sarah Waters Q&A

Sarah Waters reveals which of her shortlisted books she’d have liked to seen win the Booker Prize.

Type: Feature
Date: 15 Aug 2024

Colin Barrett interview: 'Becoming a writer was always an abstract notion'

The author of Wild Houses, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, talks about his book’s small-town Irish setting, and the author who inspired him to write about the world he knew