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Looking for a gripping novel you can't put down? Here are 12 of the best page-turners from the Booker Library. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

Looking for a gripping novel you can't put down? Here are 12 of the best page-turners from the Booker Library.

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Have you explored our Monthly Spotlight for August yet? We've taken a deep dive into Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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It's your last chance to enter our competition to win a bundle of Richard Flanagan novels and a Booker Prize tote bag, you know what to do ⤵️ ⤵️ ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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'Becoming a writer was always an abstract notion' We spoke to Colin Barrett, author of Wild Houses, about his book’s small-town Irish setting, and the author who inspired him to write about the world he knew. #BookerPrize2024 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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‘I obsessively competed in every sport I could find' Rita Bullwinkel, longlisted for the #BookerPrize2024 with Headshot, talks about the personal experiences that inspired her novel and the shapeshifting power of Virginia Woolf. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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As Women in Translation Month draws to a close, we asked five women writers about their must-reads. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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‘I hope that I have written the novel that Twain did not’ Percival Everett, longlisted for the #BookerPrize2024 with James, on how he sees himself as being in conversation with the creator of Huckleberry Finn and more. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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Only a few more days to enter our indie bookshop spotlight competition. You can find all you need to know here: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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‘I wanted to write a space pastoral’ Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital, on how her novel was 25 years in the making, and the work of translated fiction that haunts her. #BookerPrize2024 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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Matching Oasis songs to Booker Prize books... ➡️ Don't Look Back in Anger // Atonement by Ian McEwan ➡️ All Around the World // Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead ➡️ Cigarettes & Alcohol // How late it was, how late by James Kelman Any more to add?

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Zadie Smith has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times, and has appeared on Granta’s list of the Best of Young British Novelists twice, but which of her works of fiction should you read first? Discover our guide to her best books ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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‘Reading Alice in Wonderland felt like a secret being deposited’ We spoke to Rachel Kushner, longlisted for the #BookerPrize2024 with Creation Lake, about her fascination with prehistory, and the writer who established a new set of language rules. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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Introducing our Monthly Spotlight pick for September: Jon Fosse's The Other Name: Septology I-II. Longlisted for the International Booker 2020, this book presents a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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#BookerPrize2024 shortlist day is approaching! If you were one of this year's judges, which of the longlisted books would you take through to the shortlist?

#BookerPrize2024 shortlist day is approaching! If you were one of this year's judges, which of the longlisted books would you take through to the shortlist?
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Suspense, substance and intrigue: these are 10 of the best crime books from the Booker Library. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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‘I carried this novel in my head for a decade’ Hisham Matar, author of My Friends, talks about the classic that inspired him to become a writer, and why he always returns to Proust. #BookerPrize2024 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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‘I never had an intention to be an author’ Read our interview with the Nobel Prize-winning and International Booker Prize-shortlisted author, Jon Fosse, as part of September's #MonthlySpotlight. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

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‘I wanted to explore the history of my father’s family’ Claire Messud, longlisted for the #BookerPrize2024 with This Strange Eventful History, discusses the need to tell the stories of worldviews that have vanished and more. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…