To celebrate the announcement of the Booker Prize 2025 longlist, we are launching our biggest ever competition. Not only do we have five full sets of the longlist to give away, one overall winner will also receive a luxurious Fortnum & Mason hamper worth £260, a selection of beautiful Choosing Keeping stationery worth over £100, and a limited-edition, money-can’t-buy Booker Prize tote bag. Our four runners-up will each win the 13 longlisted titles and a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag.

Our top prize comprises the following:

1 x set of all 13 books on the Booker Prize 2025 longlist 
1 x The Burlington Fortnum & Mason Hamper
1 x Choosing Keeping ‘Book on Book’ Extra-Thick Composition Notebook, Ruled
1 x Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen in Burgundy, Medium Nib
1 x Pack of 6 Kaweco Cartridges, Royal Blue
1 x Choosing Keeping Retro Watercolour Set, 1930’s
1 x Brass Travel Paintbrush
1 x limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag

Fortnum & Mason, the world’s most famous cornershop, is generously hosting this year’s Booker Prize judging panel at its flagship London Piccadilly store for their key judging meetings. The longlist was decided in the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon’s Drawing Room. 

Stationery from Choosing Keeping, which has a shop on Tower Street, London, near Covent Garden, can be seen in the new Booker Prize 2025 campaign, ‘Fiction worth talking about’. 

Each year the Booker Prize introduces readers to the best sustained works of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. 

As Roddy Doyle, Chair of this year’s judging panel, says: ‘The 13 longlisted novels bring the reader to Hungary, Albania, the north of England, Malaysia, Ukraine, Korea, London, New York, Trinidad and Greece, India and the West Country. There are novels that experiment with form and others that do so less obviously. Some of them examine the past and others poke at our shaky present. They are all alive with great characters and narrative surprises. All, somehow, examine identity, individual or national, and all, I think, are gripping and excellent.’

To be in with a chance of winning, simply enter your details below by 12:00 BST on Monday, 18 August, 2025. Winners will be chosen at random.

This competition is open to readers anywhere in the world. Entrants should note that one of the titles on the longlist has not yet been published and as a result, prize bundles may not be dispatched until September. 

Terms and conditions

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 five winners, selected at random from entries received before 12:00 BST on Monday, 18 August, 2025. Entries received after this time will not be eligible.  
• One winner will receive the 13 titles (in their current UK editions) on the Booker Prize 2025 longlist, a Booker Prize tote bag, a Fortnum & Mason hamper and a selection of items from Choosing Keeping. The prize elements will be dispatched separately.
• Four runners-up will receive the 13 titles (in their current UK editions) on the Booker Prize 2025 longlist and a Booker Prize tote bag.
• 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 adult themes within the longlisted titles, particularly if sharing the books 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.    
• Winners will be notified by email no later than 12:00 BST (UK time) on Monday, 25 August, 2025, and must promptly provide a fully operative postal address for delivery of their prize. If we have not received this 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.
• 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. 
• 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.  
• Winners are responsible for any taxes or duties they may have to pay in order to take receipt of their prize.  
• While we will use our best endeavours to despatch prizes as soon as possible once all titles have been received from the publishers.  Entrants should note that current expected publication dates mean that despatch is likely to be September; further, 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 determining any question or issue in relation to them.
• We may in due course and at our sole discretion publicise the names of the winners 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.