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We are delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist.
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
We are delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist.
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
Watch Himesh Patel read from Black Bag, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by Luke Kennard.
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October 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Watch Himesh Patel read from Black Bag, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by Luke Kennard.
Watch Savannah Steyn read from May We Feed the King, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by Rebecca Perry.
Savannah Steyn reads from May We Feed the King | The Booker Prize
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October 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Watch Savannah Steyn read from May We Feed the King, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by Rebecca Perry.
Watch Lewis Gribben read from John of John, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted novel by Douglas Stuart.
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October 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Watch Lewis Gribben read from John of John, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted novel by Douglas Stuart.
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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
Tune back in from 08.10.26 at 2pm BST to watch the films.
Photography © Neo Gilder
October 7, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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
Tune back in from 08.10.26 at 2pm BST to watch the films.
Photography © Neo Gilder
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.
🔗 To find out more and how to apply for the scholarship, tap the link below.
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October 6, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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.
🔗 To find out more and how to apply for the scholarship, tap the link below.
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
Coming 08.10.26 | 2pm BST
October 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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
Coming 08.10.26 | 2pm BST
A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
October 5, 2026 at 8:27 AM
A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist films, coming soon.
📽️ In the meantime, you can catch up on all our previous films here: https://youtube.pulse.ly/vq0cwsdbjl
📽️ In the meantime, you can catch up on all our previous films here: https://youtube.pulse.ly/vq0cwsdbjl
October 4, 2026 at 9:27 AM
The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist films, coming soon.
📽️ In the meantime, you can catch up on all our previous films here: https://youtube.pulse.ly/vq0cwsdbjl
📽️ In the meantime, you can catch up on all our previous films here: https://youtube.pulse.ly/vq0cwsdbjl
Here’s your chance to guess who’ll be starring in the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist films...
October 3, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Here’s your chance to guess who’ll be starring in the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist films...
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.
🔗 Tap the link below to discover an exclusive interview, reading guide, competition and more.
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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October 2, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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.
🔗 Tap the link below to discover an exclusive interview, reading guide, competition and more.
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.
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.
October 1, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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.
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.
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 ⤵️
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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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September 29, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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 ⤵️
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/87kocdmjcf
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/87kocdmjcf
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...
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...
September 28, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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...
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...
A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
September 28, 2026 at 8:21 AM
A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
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.
The competition is open worldwide and closes at 12pm BST on Wednesday, 30 September 2026.
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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September 27, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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.
The competition is open worldwide and closes at 12pm BST on Wednesday, 30 September 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...
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...
September 27, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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...
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...
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: https://youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9
This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: https://youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9
September 26, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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: https://youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9
This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: https://youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9
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: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/nfoh2mwumf
Find out more: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/nfoh2mwumf
September 25, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/nfoh2mwumf
Find out more: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/nfoh2mwumf
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'.
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Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/vu63cpwpmd
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Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/vu63cpwpmd
September 25, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/vu63cpwpmd
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Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/vu63cpwpmd
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’.
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Find out more: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/liata4dapk
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September 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/liata4dapk
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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: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/getge5mmeq
Find out more: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/getge5mmeq
September 24, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/getge5mmeq
Find out more: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/getge5mmeq
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’.
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Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
September 23, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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...
Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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’.
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September 23, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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’.
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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...
Here's what they had to say about this year's shortlist. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
September 23, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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...
Here's what they had to say about this year's shortlist. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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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!
Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist.
Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
September 22, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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!