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4 days 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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1 week 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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2 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Solvej Balle |Barbara J. Haveland
We’re offering you the chance to win one of five bundles made up of all six shortlisted titles in contention for this year’s International Booker Prize Publication date and time: Published April 14, 2025To celebrate the announcement of the International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, we are giving you the chance to win a set of all six titles that are in contention for this year’s prize. The shortlisted books are:On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated from Danish by Barbara J.
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2 months ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Bernardine Evaristo |Banu Mushtaq
Heart Lamp, originally written in Kannada, is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025. In 12 stories, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern IndiaWhether you’re new to Heart Lampor have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, here is our comprehensive guide, featuring insights from critics, our judges and the book’s author and translator, as well as discussion points and suggestions for further reading.
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2 months ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Anne Serre |Mark Hutchinson |Max Porter |Solvej Balle
The six books on the shortlist have been chosen by the 2025 judging panel: bestselling Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter; prize-winning poet, director and photographer Caleb Femi; writer and Publishing Director of Wasafiri Sana Goyal; author and International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator Anton Hur; and award-winning singer-songwriter Beth Orton.
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2 months ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood
Skip to main content Win one of three bundles including a copy of our Monthly Spotlight title for April, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag Publication date and time: Published April 4, 2025To celebrate our Monthly Spotlight for April, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, we are giving you the chance to win a bundle of novels by the author, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag.
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2 months ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood
Skip to main content Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1986, The Handmaid’s Tale is the dystopian novel that became a phenomenonThe Handmaid’s Tale was Atwood’s sixth novel – a chilling work of speculative fiction that masterfully examines gender, power, and resistance. The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1986 and won the first-ever Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987, and has since become a modern classic, inspiring adaptations across film, television, theatre, and ballet.