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We’re offering you the chance to win a set of all six books on the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, along with a gorgeous selection of stationery from Present & Correct

Enjoy extracts from the novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 – a selection of six extraordinary books that encapsulate a wide range of global experiences

Whether you’re new to the shortlist and wondering where to start, or would like to explore it more deeply, our guides are packed with insights and discussion points

An atmospheric novel set during a famously freezing 1960s winter, The Land in Winter explores the minutiae of married life through the interior lives of two couples

Flesh is the winner of the Booker Prize 2025. A spare but propulsive novel, Flesh follows a man from adolescence to old age as he is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp

Thrilling and moving, Flashlight mines questions of memory, language and identity through the astonishing story of a family swept up in the tides of 20th-century history

An unforgettable road trip of a novel about a middle-aged academic whose marriage, career and body are failing him 

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity 

Wondering which of the six Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted novels to read first? We asked our judges to tell us what they loved about the books – and why you’ll love them too

An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love