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We’re offering you the chance to win one of five bundles made up of all six shortlisted titles in contention for this year’s Booker Prize 

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, Jo and James discuss this year’s Booker Prize shortlist, and debate which year provided the greatest shortlist ever

As the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist is announced, we’ve pulled together the most interesting facts and trends that have emerged in this year’s selection 

Today, September 21, 2023, the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2023 was announced by the Chair of judges, Esi Edugyan, at an event held at the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery in London
 

We asked the Booker Prize 2023 judges to explain what impressed and delighted them most about each book on this year’s shortlist – and why they are relevant to today’s world

In his spellbinding third novel, Paul Harding celebrates the hopes, dreams and resilience of those deemed not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference

In her tender and moving debut novel, Chetna Maroo captures grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl’s struggle to transcend herself

An exhilarating novel-in-stories, Jonathan Escoffery’s debut pulses with style, heart and barbed humour, while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay cheques

In his hilarious and heartbreaking fourth novel, Paul Murray presents an unforgettable Irish family in the grip of multiple crises: emotional, financial and existential