Percival Everett’s “James” is favorite for the prestigious literary award. But the likes of Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” or Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” could take the prize instead.

Waterstones and the Booker Prize Foundation are launching The Booker Library, an immersive pop-up shop that will be brought to Waterstones Piccadilly on 13th November and will remain open until ...

Please accept functional and analytics cookies to access this content. The International Booker Prize celebrates the world’s best fiction in translation. Awarded annually for a single book, the prize ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Not long to go now until the Olympics of English-language literature, the announcement of the Booker Prize winner on November 12.

THE Booker Prize is the most important literary award for English-language novels, and this year’s shortlist is notable for boasting the most number of women writers in its history – five women and ...

Debra Benita Shaw is Reader in Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture and Visual Arts, University of East London Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The ...

When Evaristo won the Booker Prize for that novel, her triumph was the result of a five-hour deliberation after which the judges chose to anoint not one winner but two, with Margaret Atwood ...

WITH all the turmoil that has unfolded in the last five years – a global pandemic followed by economic upheavals and escalating political tensions – it’s fitting that the novels shortlisted for the ...

The Booker Prize winner of 2024 will be announced next week on November 12, and the countdown has begun. Forty years after the 1984 Sikh riots, human rights activist Sanam Sutirath Wazir writes in ...

The world seems to be callously divided over her newly Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Held. Some have gone so far as to reprimand her for failing to comply with an author's “responsibility” to ...

Creation Lake is currently longlisted for the Booker Prize. Our reviewer believes it’s one of the most important novels to have been published in recent memory. Kiley Reid’s follow-up to her ...

Samantha Harvey’s slim novel Orbital is set in a day of these astronauts’ lives as they circle the Earth several times over to observe meteorological phenomena and conduct scientific ...