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From unreliable narrators and heartbreaking revelations to ‘the perfect novel’, here is our guide to the 1989 Booker Prize winner’s finest fiction 

The winner of the 1989 Booker Prize, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving portrait of the perfect English butler, his loyalty and his fading, insular world in post-war England

Win one of five bundles including a copy of our March Monthly Spotlight, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag

Take part in our latest challenge to explore the 2025 longlist, and connect with like-minded readers all over the world. Whether you want to read just one book or the entire list, we’d love you to join in. 

The Booker Prize Podcast returns to the movies this week to take a closer look at Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, the joint Booker Prize 1992 winner, and its big screen adaptation

First lines grab the reader’s attention and help set the tone for the rest of the novel. Test your knowledge on these opening words and see if you can match them to their famous titles

Discover more about the judges of the International Booker Prize 2024 and find out what they are hoping to find among this year’s submissions

 

Kazuo Ishiguro describes the intense four-week writing period behind his 1989 Booker Prize winner

Discover a range of Booker-nominated books that cross over into the magical realism genre, where the ordinary meets the extraordinary  

Best-known for his ‘virtually flawless’ A Month in the Country, James Lloyd Carr lived an eccentric life that encompassed, among many other things, cartography, cricket and coal