Win a set of all six books on the International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag.
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Not sure where to start with the International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist? Read the opening page of each shortlisted book and let the first lines do the talking. 📖
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Presenting our Monthly Spotlight pick for April: An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
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As International Booker Prize 2026 judges searched for the year's best fiction, key meetings took place at Poon's London at Somerset House.
To celebrate our collaboration, here's our pick of the best Chinese-themed Booker-nominated fiction.
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A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
In case you missed it, we announced the International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist earlier this week.
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Taiwan Travelogue, written by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, is ‘is an insightful post-colonial novel that reads like a delicious romance’.
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The Witch, written by Marie NDiaye and translated by Jordan Stump, is ‘A darkly comic and beautifully crafted novel where magic and reality collide’.
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On Earth As It Is Beneath, written by Ana Paula Maia and translated by Padma Viswanathan, is ‘a brutal, haunting and hypnotic novella set in a remote Brazilian penal colony’.
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The Director, written by Daniel Kehlmann and translated by Ross Benjamin, ‘uses audacious and sparklingly comic writing to tell a dark story’.
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She Who Remains, written by Rene Karabash and translated by Izidora Angel, is ‘an exquisitely written, brilliantly observed story about a young woman in a contemporary Albanian tribal society’.
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The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran, written by Shida Bazyar and translated by Ruth Martin, is ‘timely, tender, political and wonderfully human... exploring a dream of freedom that never dies’.
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Which one are you reading next? 👀
A huge thank you to our #InternationalBooker2026 judging panel: Natasha Brown, Marcus du Sautoy, Sophie Hughes, Troy Onyango and Nilanjana S. Roy.
Here's what they had to say about this year's shortlist.
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The International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist: The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar, translated from German by Ruth Martin She Who Remains by Rene Karabash, translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated from German by Ross Benjamin On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia, translated from Portuguese by Padma Viswanathan The Witch by Marie NDiaye, translated from French by Jordan Stump Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King
Presenting the shortlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies.
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‘Make space on your TBRs; this is an unmissable reading list’
We are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies.
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A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
Win a copy of Last Orders by Graham Swift, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag.
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The International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist will be landing on 31.03.26, at 2pm BST.
Which books are you hoping to see on the shortlist?
Your weekly edit: a Chinese-themed reading list, 10 of the best Booker books that explore mid-life crises, and we count down to the International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist.
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Conflict, regret, the echoing past and the narrowing future... sounds like a midlife crisis. Sounds like great fiction too.
Discover 10 Booker-nominated novels, selected by John Self, that take apart the midlife wobble — and sometimes put it back together again. 🔗 Tap the link for the full list.
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The International Booker Prize 2026 is supported by Bukhman Philanthropies.
‘Fiction beyond borders’ is the theme of the International Booker Prize 2026. We asked the longlisted authors and translators how translated fiction helps readers see beyond geographical boundaries, and why it matters.
Only ONE week to go until the shortlist for the International Booker Prize 2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is revealed!
While we wait, we asked our judges to tell us why translated fiction matters, and to share their favourite works of translated fiction. What are yours?
A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?
