Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist
Ahead of the Booker Prize 2025 winner announcement on Monday, 10 November, we’ve picked out the most interesting facts, trends and themes that have emerged in this year’s shortlist

Competition
We’re offering you the chance to win a set of all six books on the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, along with a gorgeous selection of stationery from Present & Correct
This competition is now closed.
To celebrate the announcement of the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, we are launching another exciting competition. We have five sets of the shortlist to give away, with one overall winner also receiving a selection of incredible Present & Correct stationery worth over £150, and a limited-edition, money-can’t-buy Booker Prize tote bag. Our four runners-up will each win the six shortlisted titles and a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag.
Our top prize comprises the following:
1 x set of all six books on the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist
1 x oak desk tray
1 x brass pen case
1 x Italian calendar
1 x fountain pen
1 x ballpoint pen
1 x notebook
1 x diary
1 x box of clips
1 x pencil sharpener
1 x vintage eraser
1 x small dish
1 x rubber stamp set
1 x limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag
Present & Correct, which has a shop on Bury Place, London, stocks a beautiful range of vintage stationery by designers from around the world.
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 of the shortlist: ‘The six [books] have, I think, two big things in common. Their authors are in total command of their own store of English, their own rhythm, their own expertise; they have each crafted a novel that no one else could have written. And all of the books, in six different and very fresh ways, find their stories in the examination of the individual trying to live with – to love, to seek attention from, to cope with, to understand, to keep at bay, to tolerate, to escape from – other people. In other words, they are all brilliantly written and they are all brilliantly human.’
To be in with a chance of winning, simply enter your details below by 12:00 BST on Monday, 13 October, 2025. Winners will be chosen at random.
This competition is open to readers anywhere in the world.
The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist
© Yuki Sugiura for Booker Prize FoundationThis 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):