Prizewinners 2025

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Translated by Deepa BhasthiWinner of the International Booker Prize 2025In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025These expertly arranged diaries offer a window into the life and work of one of Australia's greatest living writers'I revere Helen Garner's writing, and it's in her diaries that she's at her…

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A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years‘Dazzling… brilliant… exactly the kind of history that we need on our crisis-ridden…

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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025'A house is a precious thing...'An exhilarating tale of twisted desire,…

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When a famous conceptual artist's installation project suddenly vanishes, the sinister aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt…

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These poems emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 2017,…

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Wellwater demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, Wellwater conducts a self-interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a…

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A piercing debut about how we are made, how we get lost and how we find new selves.Framed by the story of escape from a toxic marriage, Chaotic Good focuses on the incremental ways in which power accumulates, shifts and is…