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Type: Book
Date: 24 Mar 2025

Small Boat

November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen?

Type: Book
Date: 09 Mar 2017

Lincoln in the Bardo

Narrated by a chorus of voices, George Saunders’ startlingly original novel is a thrilling exploration of death, grief and the possibilities of life

Type: Press release

Orbital by Samantha Harvey wins the Booker Prize 2024

The British author was one of five women on a history-making shortlist, and the first woman to win since 2019

Type: Feature
Date: 14 Mar 2023

International Booker Prize 2023: what our judges said about the longlist

Wondering which of the International Booker Prize 2023 longlisted titles to read first? Here, our judges summarise each book and say what they loved about them

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jun 2023

Kairos

Kairos is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024. An intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history

Type: Book
Date: 30 Aug 2018

Normal People

Sally Rooney’s love story about how one person can change another’s life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully

Type: Feature
Date: 03 May 2023

Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist skewers the psychology of idealism and its contradictions

Doris Lessing’s caustic satire, The Good Terrorist still reads as a bracing antidote to political righteousnes. Here, John Mullen discussed the novel’s impact.

Type: Feature
Date: 20 Jan 2023

My next Booker book: what our authors and judges will be reading this year

We asked members of the Booker Prizes family - including several previous winners - to pick a single book from the Booker archive and tell us why they’re looking forward to reading it

Type: Feature
Date: 25 May 2022

What's on my bookshelf: Damion Searls

The award-winning translator reveals the books that made an impact on him.

Type: Feature
Date: 06 Nov 2023

How The Black Prince reveals the two sides of Iris Murdoch

The authors at the centre of Iris Murdoch’s best novel embody the tortured philosopher in search of perfection and the prolific, publicly celebrated novelist