2025 Booker Prize

'Moving, smart and, in the end, life-affirming, it's a wonderful novel about family, hope and the obligations that make us human.' Observer (Fiction to look out for in '25) What's left when your kids grow up and leave home? When Tom Layward's wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned eighteen. Twelve...

From 2025 Booker Prize Winner author David Szalay comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. 'A revelatory novel' - Sunday Times 'Brilliance on every page' - Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town...

A MUST-READ NOVEL OF 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, GQ, ELLE, WATERSTONES AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AMONG OTHERS 'An instant classic.' ELLE 'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.' ANDREW O'HAGAN 'Original, vital, and unputdownable.' TESS GUNTY 'Utterly phenomenal.' ELIZABETH DAY In the new novel from the author of Assembly, a viral longread exposé raises more questions than it answers. Remember -...

A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event that last a lifetime. 'Ferociously smart and full of surprises, Flashlight is thrilling to the last' — Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood 'A writer at the top of her...

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss. When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that...

Seascraper is a mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family's past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment. Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa's trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach to scrape for shrimp;...

There was a unicycle hanging from a metal rack, its lemon-coloured wheel hovering above my head. The last thing I remembered was that party in Manhattan, somewhere in the West Village, drinking odd-looking cocktails and eating walnut cookies... Everything seemed vague. In New York City, an Albanian interpreter cannot help but become entangled in her clients' struggles, despite her husband's...

An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine. Brilliant ... funny and smart, full of science, longing and adventure, all the while reminding us what the world stands to lose, and what it has already lost. This is essential reading' ANN PATCHETT A fantastic novel PERCIVAL EVERETT Heartbreaking, hilarious, profound,...

The mesmerising new novel from the author of Intimacies that asks who we are to the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this...

On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast—the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the inhabitants going about their business, a quiet backdrop for her reckoning with herself. An episode from her first visit resurfaces vividly—her encounter with...

"Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate" - Yiyun Li "A mesmerising tale. Both heartbreaking and joyful" - Michael Cunningham A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer—about family, desire, and what we inherit—from celebrated author Tash Aw. When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the...

'From the very first page, I knew I was in the hands of a master storyteller. An utterly arresting tale of love and grief, of the wounding and healing powers of family, of the many guises of a mother's love. It's an absolute triumph.' SARA COLLINS 'Exquisitely written. A compelling and tender story of what-and who-is hidden in almost every...

Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 December 1962, the West Country. In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his...