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2 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Hilary Mantel |Iris Murdoch |Eva Baltasar |Julia Sanches
Some authors can make us feel hungry with words alone, vividly describing dishes that will make your mouth water. Food in books often has a symbolic meaning, too, used to express love, gain favour, or to portray a sense of cultural identity or comfort.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Hamish Hamilton |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy
As the film adaptation of Hot Milk is released, Deborah Levy reflects on novels and films, fiction and non-fiction, stage and screen, and shares her reading, listening and watching recommendations Publication date and time: Published June 4, 2025Swimming Home was recently adapted into a film and Hot Milk will be released soon. Did you ever think ‘this would make a great film’ when you were writing either?
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3 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Hamish Hamilton |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy
Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor of a bar built on the beach. It was tucked under my arm and slid out of its black rubber sheath (designed like an envelope), landing screen side down. The digital page is now shattered but at least it still works. My laptop has all my life in it and knows more about me than anyone else. So what I am saying is that if it is broken, so am I.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Hamish Hamilton |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy
Skip to main content A middle-aged woman and her daughter arrive in southern Spain in search of a medical cure in Deborah Levy’s Booker shortlisted novel, which explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhoodA playwright and non-fiction writer as well as a novelist, Deborah Levy is the author of nine acclaimed novels.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Hamish Hamilton |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy
Two strangers arrive in a small fishing village in southern Spain. The older woman, Rose, is suffering from mysterious paralysis, driven to seek a cure beyond the bounds of conventional medicine. Her daughter, Sofia, has spent years playing the reluctant detective in this mystery, struggling to understand her mother’s illness.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Hamish Hamilton |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy
To celebrate our Monthly Spotlight for June, Hot Milk by Deborah Levy, enter our competition to win a copy of the novel and a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016, Hot Milk explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood, testing the bonds of parent and child to breaking point. A film adaptation, directed by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and starring Fiona Shaw and Emma Mackey, is set to be released in UK cinemas in July 2025.
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1 month ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Banu Mushtaq |Arundhati Roy
On 20 May, Heart Lamp became the second book by an Indian author to win the International Booker Prize – as well as the first by an Indian translator, and the first originally written in Kannada.
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1 month ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Iris Murdoch |Paul Murray |Charlotte Mendelson |Mark Haddon
Featuring the tragicomic adventures of a host of eccentric misfits, these beguiling books will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson – a film director known as a bibliophile as well as an auteur Written by Helen Babbs Publication date and time: Published May 23, 2025If you were to write a checklist of what makes Wes Anderson’s film style so distinctive, it would have to include books. They’re a big deal in almost all his movies and many of his characters are writers or storytellers of some sort.
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2 months ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood
The world is full of Aunt Lydias. There are so many marvellous creations in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, so many moments of horror and shock and – ‘oh of course it would happen that way’. So many things that look very prescient now, as the gains of the women’s movement in the 70s, 80s and 90s are slowly being rolled back in the USA. But most of all, there are Aunt Lydias.
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2 months ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Margaret Atwood |Stephen Snyder |Hiromi Kawakami |Asa Yoneda
‘Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do,’ Margaret Atwood famously said, often considered mother of the genre. ‘Sci-fi is that which we’re probably not going to see.’ Her comment emerged during a long-running (and occasionally heated) debate – one that saw her butt heads with SF titan Ursula K. Le Guin, who countered that speculative fiction is science fiction, and that trying to draw a line between them was merely splitting hairs.