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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 10h

Autumn is in full swing, which means the Booker Prize 2026 ceremony is near. Mark your calendars for 9 November and stay tuned over the coming weeks as we reveal how to tune in on the night. In the meantime, which of this year's shortlist has stayed on your mind long after turning the last page?

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22h

A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?

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

Win a copy of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed written by Mariana Enríquez and translated by Megan McDowell, our Monthly Spotlight title for October, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag. Tap the link to enter – good luck! 🤞 The competition closes at 12pm GMT on Friday, 30 October 2026.

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Win a copy of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell | The Booker Prizes

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

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 09/10/2026

Watch Kathryn Hunter read from The End of Everything, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by M. John Harrison.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 09/10/2026

Watch Maxine Peake read from The Things We Never Say, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by Elizabeth Strout.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 09/10/2026

Watch Paterson Joseph read from The Disappearers, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by Marlon James.

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

Watch Lewis Gribben read from John of John, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted novel by Douglas Stuart. youtu.be/tJjtvxBo7dY

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

Watch Savannah Steyn read from May We Feed the King, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by Rebecca Perry.

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

Watch Himesh Patel read from Black Bag, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by Luke Kennard.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 07/10/2026

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 · 06/10/2026

Today, we are proud to announce a new creative writing scholarship at the University of East Anglia, in honour of Eve Smith, the Booker Prize Foundation's former Company Secretary, who would have been 68 today. 🔗 To find out more and how to apply for the scholarship, tap the link below.

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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 · 05/10/2026

A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?

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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 · 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

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

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 · 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

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 · 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 · 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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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 22/09/2026

Leaving this here for all you bloody naysayers… (So happy for you, Mike!) podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

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The End of Everything, with M. John Harrison

Podcast Episode · The Shakespeare and Company Interview · 8 July · 53min

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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

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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

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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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 16/09/2026

Rest in Power, Bonnie. We’ll miss you.

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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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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 14/09/2026

See you there!

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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

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

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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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 · 11/09/2026

Anita Brookner once said in an interview in 1995, ‘I shall leave no trace.’ But ten years after her death, her legacy is still very much present: 24 novels, a Booker Prize win and a new biography exploring her life and work. So, where should you start? Tap the link below to find out.

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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 begin?

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