The Booker Prize longlist 2025
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The longlist for the Booker Prize 2025 has been announced!
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Albania was a country that made you uneasy and tense, but alert and alive. It infuriated, exasperated, without apology or retribution, and yet one felt seen here, often even loved. The urge to escape its stifling confinement was tinged with…
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'A quietly devastating masterpiece'. MARIAN KEYES'Adam is a master storyteller.' SARA COLLINS'Love Forms achieves a sort of alchemy.' FINANCIAL TIMESIn the heart-aching new novel from the author of the…
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From Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital‘Flesh is…
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Winter 1962. As Britain becomes engulfed in one the coldest and longest winters on record, the lives of two newly married couples are changed in surprising and irrevocable ways.'Delicate and devastating . . . a brilliant novel'…
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The debut novel by 'one of the leading post-Soviet writers of her generation' (The Nation), about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine.An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of…
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A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of…
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A mesmerising portrait of a young man confined in by his class and the ghosts of his family's past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment. It confirms Benjamin Wood as an exceptional talent in British literature.'A huge talent' Hilary…
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The mesmerising new novel from the author of Intimacies that asks who we are to the people we loveA GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC, TIME, VOGUE, MARIE…
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An Observer 'Novel to look out for in 2025' and an FT 'Best Summer Read''Moving, smart and life-affirming' OBSERVER'A triumphant twist on the great American road novel.' GUARDIANWhat's left when your kids grow up…
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On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the inhabitants going about…
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A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event that last a lifetime'Ferociously smart and full of surprises' Eleanor Catton,…
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'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.' Andrew O'Hagan'Original, vital, and unputdownable.' Tess Gunty'Breathtaking ... a precise dissection of class, wealth and power.' Elizabeth DayIn the new novel from the author…
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CHOSEN AS A TIMES, GUARDIAN and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF 2025.A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer - about family, desire, and what we inherit - from celebrated author Tash Aw.When his…
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