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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 4h

For the sleuths hedging their bets, we present to you the books and their performers. Did you guess correctly? 🕵️‍♂️ Tune back in from 08.10.26 at 2pm BST to watch the films. Photography © Neo Gilder

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 05/10/2026

Introducing the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist films, directed by Holly Blakey, and starring Himesh Patel, Maxine Peake, Lewis Gribben, Kathryn Hunter, Savannah Steyn and Paterson Joseph. Coming 08.10.26 | 2pm BST

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 04/10/2026

The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist films, coming soon. ⁠ ⁠ 📽️ In the meantime, you can catch up on all our previous films here: youtube.pulse.ly/vq0cwsdbjl

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 03/10/2026

Here’s your chance to guess who’ll be starring in the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist films...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 01/10/2026

Here are our top tips on hosting your own watch party at home. 🥳

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 01/10/2026

📍 The Heath Bookshop, Birmingham 🕰️ 8-10:30pm 🎟 Tickets: £10, includes a drink on arrival, a £10 voucher to spend on the night and entry into a prize draw to win a Booker Prizes tote bag 🎫 Buy here: www.theheathbookshop.co.uk/all-events/

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 01/10/2026

📍 Books Upstairs, Dublin 🕰️ 7:30-10:15pm 🎟 Tickets: €8, includes a drink, snacks, 10% off all purchases on the night and entry into a prize draw

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 01/10/2026

📍 Bookmarked, Bristol 🕰️ 8-10:30pm 🎟 Tickets: £5, includes a welcome drink, snacks and entry into a prize draw 🎫 Buy here: bookmarkedbristol.com/products/09-...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 01/10/2026

📍 The Book Brewery, Cumbria 🕰️ 7:30-10:30pm 🎟 Tickets: Free, and there will be a raffle to win Booker Prizes tote bags and books from the shortlist

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 01/10/2026

📍 London Review Bookshop, London 🕰️ 7:30-10:30pm 🎟 Tickets: £7, and there will be three prizes over £100 to be won on the night 🎫 Buy here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/booker-pri...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 01/10/2026

It’s just over a month until the Booker Prize 2026 ceremony and we’re delighted to announce our official ceremony watch parties at bookshops around the UK and Ireland. Or, if you’d like to host your own watch party at home, here are our top tips on how to join in with the festivities.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 28/09/2026

Raymond Antrobus, Booker Prize 2026 judge, on how fiction can expand a reader – and why it's limiting to say who a book can (or can't) be for. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event here: www.youtube.com/live/flqqU7b...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 27/09/2026

Earlier this week, we announced the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist at a special event at London's Southbank Centre. Thank you to our judges and everyone who joined us in the room or via the livestream. You can watch the full announcement below. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=flqq...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 26/09/2026

Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 25/09/2026

John of John by Douglas Stuart is a ‘rich and moving novel about a father and son who live on a remote Scottish island in the 1990s, where small-town secrets and buried shame reverberate to surprising, devastating and even joyous effect’. Find out more: thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/nfoh2mwumf

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 25/09/2026

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout is a ‘novel that engages with the deeply divisive politics of present-day America, without itself becoming divisive'. @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book: thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/vu63cpwpmd

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 24/09/2026

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry is ‘affecting and lush jewel of a novel that moves between our present-day world to a medieval court and unsettles the idea that there’s ever one universal historical truth’. @grantamag.bsky.social Find out more: thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/liata4dapk

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 24/09/2026

Black Bag by Luke Kennard (@lukekennard.bsky.social ) is a ‘a wonderfully quirky campus novel, which combines an absurd experiment with a moving story about human frailty, passion, confusion and identity’. Find out more: thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/getge5mmeq

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 23/09/2026

The Disappearers by Marlon James is a ‘Jamaican epic from one of the most impactful Caribbean novelists today, often pierced through with sharp, double-edged humour’. Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 23/09/2026

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison is a ‘novel that can be read as a thriller, a mystery, a satire, a dystopia, a road novel, a work of realism’. @serpents-tail.bsky.social @profilebooks.bsky.social Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 23/09/2026

A huge thank you to our Booker Prize 2026 judging panel: Mary Beard, Raymond Antrobus, Jarvis Cocker, Rebecca Liu and Patricia Lockwood. Here's what they had to say about this year's shortlist. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026

Here's everything you need to know about the six remarkable books on Booker Prize 2026 shortlist, and the stories behind them. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026

Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist in full:

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
The Disappearers by Marlon James
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
John of John by Douglas Stuart

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026

‘This is writing at its best. There’s plenty to enjoy, some blissful escapism and prose to die for’ We are delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 21/09/2026

We are delighted to announce our special guests for the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announcement event at the Southbank Centre: actor Omari Douglas, broadcaster Miquita Oliver and actor and director Prasanna Puwanarajah (The Crown, Too Much, The Listeners and Doctor Foster)

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 21/09/2026

It's a Booker Prize Autumn 🙂‍↕️

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 19/09/2026

The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announcement is almost here – and you can join us live at the Southbank Centre to hear the news as it's announced. 🎟️ Get your tickets: southbankcentre.pulse.ly/xneo0c8ucz This video was filmed at Inner Temple Gardens.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 15/09/2026

A Booker Prize autumn approaches... Join us on Tuesday 22 September at London's Southbank Centre to get a glimpse into the judging process and hear the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announced live. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/the...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 14/09/2026

From humour to history to heartbreak, and from satire to sci-fi to surreality, here’s the lowdown on the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. ⏸️ Pause to read, or find the full article here: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 12/09/2026

From the big screen to your bookshelf 📽️ Here are some of your favourite films, old and new, paired with Booker Prize-nominated novels. Some are the books behind the films; others capture the same feeling. cover:The Dog Stars publicity still. MovieStillsDB.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 12/09/2026

🚨 PSA: you can join us at Southbank Centre for the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announcement – who's coming? This event will be British Sign Language interpreted (BSL) and Speech-to-Text transcribed. Find out more and get your tickets: southbankcentre.pulse.ly/jqwdj7y0ud

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 09/09/2026

Spinster September is here. 📖 A month that celebrates the women in literature who defy society's expectations of them and carve identities of their own – by choice or by circumstance. From Victorian Britain to postwar Europe, these books challenge misconceptions about the lives of unmarried women.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 08/09/2026

Us, barrelling towards the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announcement – which, might we add, is in a mere two weeks. Join us live at @southbankcentre.bsky.social on 22 September as the judges discuss the longlist and announce the shortlist. Get your ticket: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/the...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 07/09/2026

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.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 04/09/2026

Gone are the days when Artificial intelligence was confined to the pages of science fiction. These Booker Prize-nominated novels show that AI has become a hot topic in contemporary literature, and it's only getting started.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 01/09/2026

There are only three weeks to go until the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist is revealed, so we asked the judges to share how they have made more time for reading. Filmed at Somerset House.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 01/09/2026

We present five articles published in August – the perfect antidote for when the urge to scroll becomes irresistible. From author interviews with the Booker Prize 2026 longlistees to Women in Translation Month, and the slow winding down of summer, there’s plenty to settle into.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 26/08/2026

From reading with goats, on boats or busy commutes, we asked our community where they love to read. 📖✨ 🔗 Tap the link below to read the full article. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 23/08/2026

How’s your Booker Prize season going? Which of this year’s longlisted books has been on your mind the most — the one that keeps coming up in conversation, which everyone simply must read? Tell us in the comments below. 👇 Filmed at Somerset House.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 17/08/2026

Music is rarely incidental in a story, and often illuminating. Musical choices could tell us something important about a character's personality and the world they inhabit. Or, if you really tune in, you may catch a glimpse of the author or translator's experience as they worked on the novel...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 14/08/2026

August is Women in Translation Month, celebrating women writers worldwide and addressing the gender gap in translated literature. For its twelfth year, Martha Adams of Martha's Monthly, a Substack newsletter on translated fiction, recommends her favourite novels by women in translation.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 13/08/2026

It is the summer of 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. But neither is entirely able to suppress their anxiety about the wedding night to come…

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 12/08/2026

Thirteen opening paragraphs, but which one intrigues you most? 🧐 ⏸️ Pause to read, or find the full extracts over on our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 10/08/2026

You are cordially invited to the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announcement. 🎟️ Discover more Booker Prize 2026 events and get your tickets at the link below. thebookerprizes.com/events-whats...

The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist announcement.

Where: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London

When: 7pm on Tuesday, 22 September 2026

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 09/08/2026

We've had as much fun reading through these as we hope you will reading the longlist. Happy Booker Prize season to all who celebrate.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 07/08/2026

We asked the Booker Prize 2026 judges to tell us about the strangest places they found themselves reading in the run up to deciding their longlist.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 06/08/2026

If you're thinking about purchasing any of the Booker Prize 2026 longlisted titles, you can save 10% when buying through BookKind, plus you'll receive a free copy of All Around the World. Tap the link below to shop. bookkind.co.uk/the-booker-p...

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 31/07/2026

The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams offers a new kind of love story for a broken era, coursing with icy suspense and rendered with violent precision. Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/ufvetqhdhk @4thestatebooks.bsky.social

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 31/07/2026

All Them Dogs by Djamel White is a gripping story of violence, lust, and greed that explores one man's struggles to find his place in an unsparing world. Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/iomn26p7q8

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 31/07/2026

John of John by Douglas Stuart tells the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... @panmacmillan.bsky.social

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