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This prize season, we’re celebrating indie booksellers across the UK and Ireland. Here, we reveal the winning bookshops of our competition
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1973, The Black Prince is part-thriller, part-love story: a book that explores the intricacies and inconsistencies of human relationships
As a new Netflix film adaptation of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted Hurricane Season is released, here’s our guide to the book, the author, her influences and accolades
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We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting, writes about Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, a book that’s impossibly gorgeous but hard to keep up with
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We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Sarah Bernstein, author of Study for Obedience, explains how she drew from Marie NDiaye’s pervasive atmosphere of the uncanny
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We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Paul Harding, author of This Other Eden, explains how the moral complexity of Shakespeare’s villains helped him create Matthew Diamond
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In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts choose a scary and disturbing book for Halloween: Bora Chung’s short story collection Cursed Bunny, translated by Anton Hur
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In this extract from her final book, the two-time Booker Prize winner explains how she wanted to create a new sense of history, and reveals her relish for Thomas Cromwell’s company
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In 2005, Hilary Mantel emailed her editor Nicholas Pearson the first 40 pages of a new book, which would transform not only her career, but our expectations of historical fiction. Here, he recalls how Wolf Hall came to life
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To mark Black History Month, and to shine a spotlight on the many Black authors in the Booker Library, we’ve selected short extracts from 12 novels nominated for the Booker Prize or International Booker Prize – how many can you identify correctly?
