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The Guardian view on the 2025 Booker prize: bringing posh bingo to the BookTok generation

Editorial: With this year’s shortlist announced live to the public, Britain’s most prestigious literary award is finding ways to engage new audiences

The Guardian - UK

This was my favourite read of the summer – now it’s been Booker 2025 shortlisted

Judge Sarah Jessica Parker described whittling down the list as “real agony”

The Independent UK

Booker Prize 2025 shortlist revealed: which six books are Sarah Jessica Parker approved?

The 13 books of the ‘Booker dozen’ has been winnowed down to just six novels — all from very established authors but only one Brit

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‘Brilliantly human’: Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist

No debut novels are among the six finalists, with established authors including Ben Markovits and previously shortlisted Andrew Miller in the running

The Guardian - UK

As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here’s why you should read them

Ben Markovits, David Szalay, Kiran Desai, Andrew Miller, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura’s books will all take you on enthralling journeys

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Jessica Parker says picking books for Booker shortlist was ‘real agony’

Actor says ‘there’s nothing casual about letting a book go’

The Independent UK

Booker Prize shortlist 2025: Six ‘brilliantly written and brilliantly human’ stories

Shortlisted authors are examining ‘individuals trying to live with other people’

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Booker Prize announces ‘wonderful’ longlist of 13 books that left judges ‘elated’

Shortlist will be unveiled on 23 September, with the winner announcement to follow in November

The Independent UK

Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw

Chair of judges Roddy Doyle says the 13 ‘gripping’ titles in contention for the £50,000 award all ‘examine identity, individual or national’

The Guardian - UK

This year’s Booker prize longlist looks in new directions

Former winner Kiran Desai leads a varied field, while Alan Hollinghurst misses out

The Guardian - UK

Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher wins Dylan Thomas prize with ‘audacious’ novel The Coin

£20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to story ‘tackling trauma and grief with bold and poetic moments of quirkiness and humour’

The Guardian - UK

Audition by Katie Kitamura review – a literary performance of true uncanniness

An actor’s story becomes a thrillingly radical deconstruction of family relationships and the social roles we play

The Guardian - UK

Audition by Katie Kitamura review – an evasive experiment

This tricksy novel from the author of A Separation takes its cue from Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy – but what starts as intrigue soon starts to feel like time-wasting

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Katie Kitamura: ‘As Trump tries to take away everything I love, it’s never been clearer that writing matters’

The Japanese-American author of unsettling new novel Audition talks about why fiction isn’t frivolous, family life with fellow writer Hari Kunzru, and how US authors are facing a critical moment

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Fiction to look out for in 2025

An epic family saga, new novels from Natasha Brown and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus a David Szalay masterpiece… the coming year looks good

The Conversation

Rory Cormac's How to Stage a Coup is an entertaining critique, not a how-to manual

In Katie Kitamura’s brilliant novel Intimacies (2022), the story of a former African dictator being tried in the International Criminal Court, there is a summary of the case against the accused:

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