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The Booker Prize shortlist 2025

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The shortlist for the Booker Prize 2025 has been announced, featuring a previous winner and three authors shortlisted for the first time.

From the publisher:
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…

From the publisher:
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.Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.  Winner of the…

From the publisher:
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…

From the publisher:
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…

From the publisher:
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…

From the publisher:
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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