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Dark and poetic, She Who Remains is a novel about identity, gender, love, freedom, and societal norms

Stark and unsettling, On Earth As It is Beneath is set in a forgotten prison in remote Brazil where life has taken a sadistic, deadly turn

Beryl Bainbridge is known for writing idiosyncratic, macabre, psychologically astute, often hilarious novels. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times – but which of her many books should you read first?

Full of backstage scandal and romantic intrigue, this darkly comic novel is about class, the long shadow of war, and unrequited first love

From Bernice Rubens in 1970 to Ben Markovits in 2025, the mid-life crisis has long been a rich source of material for Booker-nominated novelists

Enjoy extracts from all the novels shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 – an ‘energising’ selection of books

The authors and translators shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 answer questions about their inspirations and influences, and the power of translated fiction

We asked the International Booker Prize 2026 judges to tell us what impressed and delighted them most about each book on this year’s shortlist – and why they are relevant to today’s world 

Take a closer look at the six remarkable shortlisted books – their themes, characters, settings and origins, and find out what everyone’s saying about them

To celebrate the Booker Prizes’ collaboration with Poon’s London, we present a selection of the best Chinese-themed fiction that has been nominated for our prizes