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Thirty years after her death, Booker Prize-winning author John Banville returns to Caroline Blackwood’s Great Granny Webster, her wickedly funny portrait of a family in decline

From unreliable narrators and heartbreaking revelations to ‘the perfect novel’, here is our guide to the 1989 Booker Prize winner’s finest fiction

Anita Brookner was a prolific writer and a master of both comedy and tragedy. Over the course of 28 years, she wrote 24 novels, winning the Booker Prize in 1984 with Hotel du Lac. But where should you...

We asked the authors nominated for this year’s Booker Prize about the inspirations behind their longlisted works; their favourite books; and where they love to read, and write

This week: get ready for the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announcement, discover where to start with Anita Brookner, and explore the best post-apocalyptic novels in the Booker Library

Anita Brookner was a prolific writer and a master of both comedy and tragedy. Over the course of 28 years, she wrote 24 novels, winning the Booker Prize in 1984 with Hotel du Lac. But where should you begin?

From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend, watches customers and passers-by intently, hoping to be chosen. But when the possibility arises that her circumstances may change forever, she is warned not to put too much faith in human promises

The last decade of the 20th century saw A.S. Byatt, Roddy Doyle and J.M. Coetzee win the Booker, but there are many other shortlisted titles that modern readers should seek out

Win one of five copies of our Monthly Spotlight title for September plus a new-look, limited-edition Booker Prizes tote bag 

We asked the authors nominated for this year’s Booker Prize about the inspirations behind their longlisted works; their favourite books; and where they love to read, and write

In his Booker Prize 2021 longlisted novel, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love...

We asked the authors nominated for this year’s Booker Prize about the inspirations behind their longlisted works; their favourite books; and where they love to read, and write

Win one of five copies of our Monthly Spotlight title for August, plus a new-look, limited-edition Booker Prizes tote bag