The author of One Boat, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, talks about how writing became a daily necessity and about the books he reads again and again
Jonathan Buckley
Jonathan Buckley is a British writer and editor from the West Midlands, now living in Brighton, UK
In 2015, he won the BBC National Short Story Award for ‘Briar Road’, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. In 2022, his novel Tell was the joint winner of the Novel Prize – a global, biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English – and was shortlisted for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize. He was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 for his 13th novel, One Boat.
Before becoming a novelist, he was an editorial director at Rough Guides and wrote several guidebooks for visitors to Italy.
Buckley creates a novel of quiet brilliance and sly humour, packed with mystery and indeterminacy
The Booker Prize 2025 judges on One Boat
All nominated books
Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat grapples with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility
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The Booker Prize 2025 longlisted authors on the books they reread again and again
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