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Features

The Booker has been championing outstanding fiction for more than 50 years. As a result, we have a rich, and ever-growing, catalogue of in-depth articles, video and audio exploring the unique world of our books and their authors

Here, you can find exclusive new videos with our authors as well as archive footage going back to the beginning of the Booker Prizes. There are reading guides for our shortlisted and longlisted novels, to inspire you to add more Booker books to your #TBR list.

You can also read interviews with our authors as they go through the extraordinary experience of being a Booker Prize nominee, discover the books that inspired them, and explore articles that revisit key moments from the prize’s history.

Old wooden house in Polish countryside

Book extract

An extract from Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Composite image featuring The Deserters by Mathias Énard, On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia, White Nights by Ursula Honek, Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop, Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, The Vegetarian by Han Kang, She Who Remains by Rene Karabash

Interview

How independent publishers have become the cornerstone of the International Booker Prize

Sophie Hughes

First person

International Booker Prize 2026 judge Sophie Hughes on finding time to read more

Barbara Pym is pictured with her cat. The image is overlayed with the book cover of Quartet in Autumn and the 'Monthly Spotlight' lettering.

Reading guides

Reading guide: Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

An illustration of 8 people reading. They are all of different genders, race and age and are all partaking in different reading setups.

Information

Young, urban and male: who is reading translated fiction in the UK now?

Two elderly women are pictured from behind, walking in a city street linking arms. The image is overlayed by the book cover of Quartet in Autumn with the 'Monthly Spotlight' lettering.

Information

Monthly Spotlight: Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

An image of the Booker Prizes tote cover and copy of Quartet in Autumn, with the 'Monthly Spotlight' lettering.

Competition

Win a copy of Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

Composite image featuring a copy of The Vegetarian and headshots of its author Han Kang and translator Deborah Smith, against a teal background and beside large number 10

Interview

What winning the International Booker Prize means, according to previous winners

A London city scene overlayed with the book cover of Quartet in Autumn and the 'Monthly Spotlight' lettering

Book extract

An extract from Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

The International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist

Interview

‘Fiction that has travelled beyond borders puts us into a visceral conversation with our fellow humans’

Four characters from The Testaments TV show stand in a line. They are wearing purple and outisde.

Reading guides

Reading guide: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Indira Varma reads from The Witch by Marie NDiaye for the IBP 2026 shortlist films

Video

Watch the International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist films

A chair is hit by shadows and lights from facing blinds on a window. The image features the book cover of Quartet in Autumn and the 'Monthly Spotlight' lettering.

First person

Samantha Harvey on Quartet in Autumn: ‘It’s a crackling, funny novel and joyful to adapt’

The book cover of The Sellout on a green background of translucent speech bubbles.

Long read

An oral history of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, 10 years on

The International Booker Prize shortlist

Reading guides

Discover our reading guides for the International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist

The Witch

Reading guides

Reading guide: The Witch by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump

The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran

Reading guides

Reading guide: The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar, translated by Ruth Martin

The Director

Reading guides

Reading guide: The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin

Author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King each holding a copy of Taiwan Travelogue and their International Booker Prize trophies

Reading guides

Reading guide: Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King

She Who Remains

Reading guides

Reading guide: She Who Remains by Rene Karabash, translated by Izidora Angel