The festive season has arrived, and to celebrate, we’re giving you the chance to win a selection of this year’s best books, just in time for Christmas: the Booker Prize and International Booker Prize 2024 shortlisted titles. 

From gripping page-turners to the finest in translated fiction, this bundle is sure to keep book lovers reading well into the new year and is ideal for gifting – or, keeping all to yourself. 

The prize includes:

• Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott 
• Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann (winner of the International Booker Prize 2024)
• The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson 
• Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae 
• What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, by Sarah Timmer Harvey 
  Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz 
• James by Percival Everett
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey (winner of the Booker Prize 2024)
• Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
• Held by Anne Michaels
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
• Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

To be in with a chance of winning, simply enter your details below by 12:00 GMT on Monday, December 9, 2024. This competition is open to readers anywhere in the world.

This competition is a free draw, with only one entry allowed per person, and we reserve the right to disqualify any entries where we suspect one person has used a number of different email addresses. Use or attempted use of any automated or other non-manual entry methods is prohibited. 

The draw is governed by our general rules for competitions, available here, but the following specifics also apply (and take precedence should there be any contradiction or ambiguity): 

· There will be one winner, selected at random from entries received by 12:00 GMT on Monday, December 9, 2024. Entries received after this time will not be eligible. 

· The winner will receive a set of 12 books (Not a River, Kairos, The Details, Mater 2-10, What I’d Rather Not Think About, Crooked Plow, James, Orbital, Creation Lake, Held, The Safekeep, and Stone Yard Devotional) in their current UK editions. 

· Entrants must be 18 or over, and we reserve the right to ask for proof of age at any point in the competition; prize-winners should be aware of the adult themes of the books, particularly if sharing it with other readers. 

· The competition is open to those resident in or outside the UK subject to the proviso that an entry is not eligible if it is from a resident in a country or jurisdiction where this free draw may breach any local law or regulation.    

· The winner will be notified by email no later than 12:00 GMT on Wednesday, December 12, 2024, and must promptly provide a fully operative postal address for delivery of their prize. The prize will be despatched as soon as possible once a usable postal address has been received but delivery cannot be guaranteed by a particular date. If we have not received an address within 7 days of us notifying a winner, we will have no obligation to deliver the prize and at our sole discretion, we may select a further winner to receive the prize concerned or simply decide not to give it. 

· We can only undertake to do what is reasonable in all the circumstances to deliver the prize to a location outside the UK. 

· Bearing in mind, among other things, the value of the prize itself in relation to cost of delivery, we reserve the right (and this is determined at our sole discretion) to ask a winner to provide an alternative address for delivery to a person/location where the cost is proportionate. 

· The winner is responsible for any taxes or duties they may have to pay in order to take receipt of their prize.

· We cannot ship to PO Box addresses; winners are required to provide a bricks-and-mortar/physical address for prize(s) to be dispatched to. 

· While we will aim to despatch prizes as soon as possible after the competition has closed, no responsibility can be accepted for entries delayed or lost.

· We are not responsible for any damage to the prize in the course of delivery; while we will consider a request for a replacement (if available) if the prize arrives in a seriously damaged state, this is solely in our discretion depending on the particular circumstances. 

· These terms and conditions are governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of England & Wales, and the courts of England & Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation determining any question or issue in relation to them.

· We may in due course and at our sole discretion publicise the names of the winner and their location (in general terms, not specific addresses) on our website and/or social media channels and by entering the competition an entrant agrees to this publicity should they be a prize-winner.