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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 19h
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 · 02/10/2026
Presenting our Monthly Spotlight pick for October: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, written by Mariana Enríquez and translated by Megan McDowell 🔗 Tap the link below to discover an exclusive interview, reading guide, competition and more.
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Monthly Spotlight: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell | The Booker Prizes
In her International Booker Prize 2021 longlisted collection, Mariana Enríquez’s stories of desire, violence and the supernatural are haunted by the legacy of Argentina’s dictatorship
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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. 🥳
How to host your own watch party:

Invite your friends: Tell your nearest and dearest book-lovers that you'll be hosting a watch party, and share the time and place.

Set up the space: Get YouTube at the ready and arrange your seating – sofas, armchairs, floor cushions, beanbags, boxes or whatever you have – so everyone will be able to see the screen.

Plan the menu: Serve snacks and drinks – themed to the shortlisted books, if you're feeling extra – or organise a pot-luck so everyone's well-fed ahead of the announcement.

Add entertainment: Get hyped as the announcement approaches by rewatching our shortlist films, hosting a round of Booker Prize 2026 trivia, a winner sweepstake or any other merriment you can think of.

Tune into the livestream: Watch live on the Booker Prizes YouTube channel and join the discussion on any of our social channels.
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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 · 29/09/2026
The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist is here, and to celebrate we're giving you the chance to win a set of all six books and Fortnum & Mason's leather notebook @fortnums 📚👀 Find out more and enter ⤵️ thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/87kocdmjcf
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Win the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist, and a stylish notebook from Fortnum & Mason | The Booker Prizes
We’re offering you the chance to win a set of all six books on the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist, along with a beautiful notebook from Fortnum & Mason and a Booker Prizes tote bag
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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 · 28/09/2026
A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 27/09/2026
It's your last chance to win a copy of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, our Monthly Spotlight title for September, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag. Tap the link below to enter 🤞 The competition is open worldwide and closes at 12pm BST on Wednesday, 30 September 2026. 
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Win a copy of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro | The Booker Prizes
Win one of five copies of our Monthly Spotlight title for September plus a new-look, limited-edition Booker Prizes tote bag 
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 27/09/2026
Find out more about this year's shortlist below thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... 📷 David Parry
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The Booker Prize 2026 | The Booker Prizes
The shortlist for the Booker Prize 2026 has been announced, featuring two previous winners, a previous shortlistee, and three authors new to the prize
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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 · 23/09/2026
Thank you for joining us! Will you read any more of the shortlist?
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 23/09/2026
Sorry (definitely not sorry)
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 23/09/2026
Which one are you hoping to read next?
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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pretty pleased with myself that when @thebookerprizes.com drops their shortlist I can note that I've already read one of them and have three already on my queue at the library! This is a great list!
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026
Save over £30 when you buy all six Booker Prize shortlisted books for the special price of £79 from BookKind. Plus, 10% of the value of your purchase will be donated to the Booker Prize Foundation, helping fund our work to support readers and writers of the future. bookkind.co.uk/the-booker-p...
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The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist bundle
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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 · 22/09/2026
We're now live, come and join us to see which books make the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=flqq...
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The Booker Prize 2026 Shortlist Announcement: Live Stream
YouTube video by Southbank Centre
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 21/09/2026
They will be reading excerpts from the shortlisted books live on stage. 🎟️ Get your tickets at the link below. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/the...
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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 · 21/09/2026
A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
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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 · 18/09/2026
Caroline Blackwood’s Great Granny Webster is a strange, darkly funny portrait of a deeply dysfunctional family. Now, almost 50 years after the novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, John Banville revisits Blackwood’s brilliant book and considers the woman behind it. Tap the link for more.
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John Banville on Great Granny Webster: ‘Caroline Blackwood created a masterpiece’ | The Booker Prizes
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
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 17/09/2026
Tap the link in our bio to read the full article, written by Shahidha Bari. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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Fashion in fiction: how clothes shape the story in Booker Prize novels | The Booker Prizes
Shahidha Bari, Professor of Fashion Cultures and Histories at London College of Fashion, explores the sartorial language of novels and what it can reveal about a character and identity
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 17/09/2026
What we wear can say a lot about us. The same is true of the characters we meet in fiction. From Shuggie Bain to The Line of Beauty, clothes can expose, disguise, seduce, and protect, revealing a character's inner world in ways they may never say themselves.
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 16/09/2026
Kazuo Ishiguro — Booker Prize winner and one of the most celebrated British novelists of the last 40 years. But where to start with his work? The good news? You can't really go wrong. The better news? We've made this guide to help you dive right in. Tap the link below for the full article.
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Where to start with Kazuo Ishiguro: a guide to his best books | The Booker Prizes
From unreliable narrators and heartbreaking revelations to ‘the perfect novel’, here is our guide to the 1989 Booker Prize winner’s finest fiction
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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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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fiction is “the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease”, Edith Hope observes in Hotel du Lac. But which Anita Brookner novel should the ill-at-ease try first? My guide to her some of her best books, for @thebookerprizes.com:
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Where to start with Anita Brookner: a guide to her best books | The Booker Prizes
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...
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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 · 14/09/2026
A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 13/09/2026
We asked the Booker Prize 2026 longlisted authors about the books that made them want to become writers and this is what they said. 🔗 Tap the link to read the full interviews with all 13 authors.
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Get to know the authors longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026 | The Booker Prizes
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
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 12/09/2026
Tap the link below to discover more. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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[Booker Prize books that have been adapted for film and television] | The Booker Prizes
Looking for your next high-quality movie or binge-worthy television series? More than 60 Booker Prize nominated titles have been adapted for the big and small screen - discover them all here
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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 · 12/09/2026
Your weekly edit: 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 substack.pulse.ly/08m8g9xewp
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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
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