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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Ismail Kadare |Rachel Kushner |Shehan Karunatilaka |Olga Tokarczuk
If the psychological twists of The Traitors have you longing for more, these novels of ambition and betrayal will leave you questioning every motive – just like the game itself Written by Donna Mackay-Smith Publication date and time: Published January 17, 2025Murder. Banish. Recruit. With its gripping mix of seduction and strategic betrayal, BBC One’s The Traitors, a modern spin on the party game Mafia, has viewers hooked around the world.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Sarah Perry |Hilary Mantel |Shehan Karunatilaka |George Saunders
From folklore with added fright factor to otherworldly modern tales, we present a selection of titles from the Booker Library that tap into our darkest fears of spectres and spirits Written by Donna Mackay-Smith Publication date and time: Published October 23, 2024‘Ghost stories,’ as Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, once said, ‘are a way of exploring the boundaries between life and death, between the known and the unknown, between order and chaos’.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Paul Lynch |Shehan Karunatilaka |Damon Galgut |Douglas Stuart
The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969, with the aim of stimulating public interest in contemporary fiction. It was loosely based on France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt. At first, the prize was only open to writers from the British Commonwealth; it has subsequently been extended to all Anglophone writers. The prize ceremony, when the winner is announced, is broadcast live on the BBC, and even a short-listing for the prize has an enormous—even life-changing—impact on an author’s career.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
purplepencilproject.com | Shehan Karunatilaka
Amritesh Mukherjee reviews Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka (published by Penguin Random House India, 2011). There’s a dearth of cricket stories in the market. Biographies and autobiographies you’ll find many in the market, but great cricket novels? Hardly.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Elif Shafak |Shehan Karunatilaka |Alice Sebold
Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is an intensely beautiful novel about the wonder of life, the mystery of death and the strange space in betweenWhether you’re new to 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange Worldor have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide.
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May 30, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Shehan Karunatilaka
The road to Booker Prize recognition isn’t always smooth. John Self explores some of the most famous titles that were initially turned down, and speaks to editors, authors and agents about why those books struggled to secure a publishing deal Written by John Self Publication date and time: Published May 30, 2024The Booker Prize is the ultimate accolade for English language fiction and winning it is a story of unalloyed success for any author and their book. Isn’t it?
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
bookriot.com | Jinwoo Chong |Shehan Karunatilaka |Juliet Jacques |Laura Sackton
Flatiron Books, publisher of The Familiar by Leigh BardugoSet in the Spanish Golden Age, during a time of high‑stakes political intrigue and glittering wealth, The Familiar follows Luzia, a servant in the household of an impoverished Spanish nobleman who reveals a talent for little miracles. Her social‑climbing mistress demands Luzia use her gifts to win over Madrid’s most powerful players but what begins as simple amusement takes a dangerous turn.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
exploretravel.com.au | Shehan Karunatilaka
An afternoon in Malaga sparks the curiosity and feeds the soul. What brings us to the southern coast of Spain for an afternoon? A Viking cruise ship, on the tailwind of its second week from Bergen. For we first-time cruisers, it is around the two-week mark that cabin fever sets in. Tempers begin fraying, buffets become treadmills and each port starts to merge into the last. So we come to Malaga, one of the oldest cities in the world, bringing only our sun hats and sour moods.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
powells.com | Yaa Gyasi |Shehan Karunatilaka |Gabriel García Márquez |Emily Habeck
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
telegraphindia.com | Paul Lynch |Orhan Pamuk |Hamish Hamilton |Shehan Karunatilaka
Fiction books that stood out and stole the show this year The Telegraph Published 29.12.23, 10:03 AM A likeness of Lucrezia de’ Medici (1545-1561), the fifth child of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, painted on the eve of her marriage to Alfonso II d’Este, the Duke of Ferrara — the subject of Maggie O’ Farrell’s 'The Marriage Portrait' Sourced by the Telegraph Prophet Song By Paul Lynch, Oneworld This year’s winner of the Booker Prize is a dystopian novel that is a dirge to the darkest of times....
