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Type: Press release

The Booker Prize 2022 shortlist announced - shows geographical breadth and reimagines real events

NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Alan Garner, Shehan Karunatilaka, Claire Keegan and Elizabeth Strout are the shortlistees for the Booker Prize 2022

Booker Prize 2022 judges with the six shortlisted novels

Type: Feature

Why you should read the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist, according to our judges

We asked the Booker Prize 2022 judges to explain what impressed and delighted them most about each book on the shortlist – and why they are relevant to today’s world

Type: Feature

Six things you need to know about the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist

As the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist is announced, we’ve pulled together the most interesting facts and trends that have emerged in this year’s selection

Type: Author

Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence was a Canadian novelist and short story writer

Type: Author

Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill was an English crime writer and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement

Type: Author

Elaine Feinstein

Elaine Feinstein was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator

Type: Author

Len Deighton

Len Deighton is a British author of books on cookery and military history, but is best known for his spy novels

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Christy Brown

Christy Brown was a celebrated Irish author, poet and painter. Born with a severe form of cerebral palsy, he was able to write, type and paint with only with the toes of one foot

Casual Readers Club (East London) at the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist event, The Serpentine, London

Type: Feature
Date: 16 Sep 2022

Meet the official Booker Prize book clubs as they prepare to read the 2022 shortlist

We have partnered with the Reading Agency to select six groups who will each be reading a different book on the 2022 shortlist, to compete for places at our winner ceremony

Type: Author

H.E. Bates

H. E. Bates was an English writer known for works including Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May, and My Uncle Silas