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Author Margaret Atwood posing for a portrait in Toronto, Canada.

Book recommendations

Where to start with Margaret Atwood: a guide to her best books

A young male soldier in an old-fashioned khaki uniform. He's seated, his face is dirty and sweaty. His shirt is unbuttoned and dirty. He has two silver tags on a string around his neck.

Book extract

An extract from The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

The Death Railway travel at the River Kwai of the Burma-Thailand Railway north of the City of Kanchanaburi in Central Thailand.

Book recommendations

Monthly Spotlight: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

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Competition

Win a bundle of Richard Flanagan novels and a Booker Prize tote bag

Summer reading competition

Competition

Win a signed set of the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist and an instax smartphone printer

Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare.

Long read

Ismail Kadare and me: six memories of ‘the greatest writer of the age’

The Booker prize judges choose the long list of 13 books at the Chair of judges , Edmund De Waal's studio in South London.

Interview

Meet the Booker Prize 2024 judges: ‘The Booker is the Olympic gold medal of book awards’

Front cover of 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World on top of an image of a tile in Topkapi Palace, Istanbul.

Book recommendations

Monthly Spotlight: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

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Book recommendations

Editors’ picks: our favourite Booker Prize-nominated books to read this summer

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Book recommendations

Nine Booker Prize-nominated novels with the best plot twists (no spoilers)

A summery illustration against an orange-yellow background showing an open book with a swimming pool within it. There are people around and in the pool; two sit on sit on sun loungers reading books.

Book recommendations

20 of the best summer reads nominated for the Booker Prize, chosen by our readers

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Quiz

Summer holiday quiz: 30 questions to test your Booker Prizes knowledge

Portrait of Elif Shafak

Interview

An interview with Elif Shafak: 'I am drawn to the silenced'

Front cover of 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World on top of a picture of a beautiful sunrise at Istanbul.

Reading guides

Reading guide: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

Booker Prize Competition black bag with the front cover of 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds.

Competition

Win a copy of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

Front cover of 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World on top of a picture of the Hagia Sophia at sunrise.

Book extract

An extract from 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

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Book recommendations

10 of the best Booker Prize-nominated books with a political slant

Diversity people readers male and female characters reading books while sitting on book pile.

Quiz

Quiz: How much of a book fanatic are you?

Child on Father's shoulders at the beach.

Book recommendations

The most memorable fictional fathers from the Booker Library, ranked from worst to best

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Book recommendations

Nine Booker Prize-nominated novels that explore toxic relationships