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In the first episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts get to know each other by discussing their favourite books from the Booker Library

In Time’s Arrow, events occur in reverse, as the main character becomes younger and younger and is propelled inevitably towards the horrors of the Holocaust

We are expanding our team to help encourage more readers to explore the hundreds of extraordinary books that have been nominated for our annual prizes. See our available roles here

Leïla Slimani talks about a childhood where books were the answer to an endlessly inquisitive mind - and why the Internation Booker allows readers to interrogate both the past, and the future

With the 2026 prize ceremony just around the corner, the team at the Booker Prizes reflects on their favourite winners from years gone by

‘Meanwhile the dark slid itself onto her chest like a snake, organizing its weight into neatly stacked coils that might go on forever and bury her, crush her, if she didn’t leap out of bed just in time and, with deft skill, reopen the door’

Try to resist skipping straight to the end of these Booker-nominated books that will leave you feeling all sorts of emotions, from puzzled to sucker-punched  

We spoke to the International Booker Prize 2025 judges about their reading habits, their favourite works of translated fiction – and why more people should read it

Read the opening pages from Hilary Mantel’s darkly funny novel Beyond Black, a comically sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums