Booker Prize Longlist 2023

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LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption.Eniola is tall for his…

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TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEARRecently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching…

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A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings – more than she cares to remember – from earliest…

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, NEW YORKER AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE‘Dazzling’ GUARDIAN‘Blistering’ THE TIMES'A delight' DIANA EVANS‘Fiction written at the highest level’ ANN PATCHETT'Hilarious,…

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Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland, in the most uplifting and tender book of the year'A gorgeous gift of a novel' Douglas Stuart, no.1 bestselling author of Shuggie Bain'Heart-rending and delightful' Louise…

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'Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian'Begs to be read' Spectator'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington BlackIn 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife,…

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Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing.Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories…

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‘Glorious. Unforgettable’ Melissa Harrison‘Funny, lyrical, deft and devastating’ Amy Sackville‘A distinct and poetic new voice’ Clare PollardI lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023‘Paul Lynch is peerless’ Donal Ryan, author of Strange FlowersAn Irish Times ‘Book to Look Forward to in 2023’A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a…

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BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR'Mesmerising' Sunday Times'Magnificent' Guardian'Monumental' The TelegraphLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted…

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'A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and places in this book will stay with me for a long time.' - Sally RooneyA 'Book of the Year' in The Economist, The…

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Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart...'It's a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your heart' Observer'A tragicomic…