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Booker shortlist 2025: six novels (mostly) about middle age that are anything but safe and comfortable

The Times has described the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist as “revenge of the middle-aged author”“. If the phrase sounds derogatory, it isn’t meant that way: the review also describes the shortlist as "novels for grown-ups”, with the prize privileging “maturity over novelty” and supporting “unpretentious, old-fashioned literary fiction”.

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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

Evening Standard

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

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Deciding on 2025 Booker Prize shortlist was ‘real agony’ – Sarah Jessica Parker

The Hollywood star was part of the 2025 Booker Prize judging panel.

Evening Standard

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

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai review – a dazzling epic

Longlisted for the Booker, this capacious story of love, work and family set between India and the US is both dizzyingly vast and insistently miniature

The Guardian - UK

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood review – a story that sings on the page

A young shrimp fisher’s horizons are broadened by the arrival of a stranger in this atmospheric Booker-listed tale

The Guardian - UK

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Five Great Reads: ‘Shrinking girl summer’, Sharon Stone, and Peter Carey’s Ned Kelly

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Claire Keenan

The Guardian - AU

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

The Narrow Road to the Deep North review – immensely powerful TV

This adaptation of the Booker prize-winning novel spanning three timelines is a visceral, passionate drama starring Ciarán Hinds and Jacob Elordi. What bracingly confident television

The Guardian - UK

Netflix Just Quietly Released A Disappointing New Chapter In Its Most Underrated Superhero Franchise

'The Old Guard 2' tries, but mostly fails, to resurrect a franchise in the making.

Inverse

Why we still need a women’s prize for fiction

As we make summer reading lists, some of us will turn to lists of prize winners for recommendations.

The Conversation

‘Stupider than everyone else’: one comic’s semi-naked bid to perform dozens of Penguin novels

In a riotous show, Garry Starr dons a tailcoat, flippers and little else to re-enact a bookshelf full of classics. Would you help him bring The Jungle Book to life?

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New book prize to award aspiring writer £75,000 for first three pages of novel

The Next Big Story competition, run by writing school The Novelry, is encouraging entries from would-be authors ‘historically overlooked by the publishing industry’

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Kiley Reid: ‘Consumption cannot fix racism’

The American author on the follow-up to her bestselling debut Such a Fun Age, why she loves characters you want to shake, and reading 160 novels for the Booker prize

Tom’s Guide

How to watch 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' online – stream Richard Flanagan saga from anywhere now – U.K. release date revealed

World War 2 miniseries based on Booker-winning novel of same name. Here's how to watch "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" online, on TV and from anywhere in the world.

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James by Percival Everett audiobook review – reimagining Huckleberry Finn

Dominic Hoffman narrates this satirical, Booker-nominated reworking of the children’s classic, written from the perspective of the enslaved Jim

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Jennifer Johnston, celebrated Irish novelist and playwright, dies aged 95

Once lauded ‘the best writer in Ireland’, Johnston began publishing in her 40s and was Booker-shortlisted for her 1977 novel set during the Troubles, Shadows on Our Skin

The Guardian - UK

Writer Percival Everett: ‘Deciding to write a book is like knowingly entering a bad marriage’

The American novelist on James, his Booker-shortlisted retelling of Huckleberry Finn, working with Steven Spielberg and the silliness of the Oscars

WhatToWatch

The Old Guard 2: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Charlize Theron movie

In The Old Guard 2, Theron and her team of immortal mercenaries are finally back. Here’s everything you need to know.

The Guardian - UK

Booksellers predict Orbital by Samantha Harvey will be UK No 1 bestselling book

The Booksellers Association spoke to staff who also highlighted James by Percival Everett, and everything from Chris Hoy’s autobiography to a book about fishing by a dog

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Jessica Parker gets a ‘golden ticket’ to the judging panel of 2025 Booker prize

Sex and the City star says it is ‘the thrill of a life’ to be appointed to 2025 panel alongside Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to pick year’s best novel

The Guardian - UK

‘It can feel quite mysterious’: Alan Garner on writing, folklore and experiencing time slips in the Pennines

At 90, the author reflects on his friendship with Alan Turing, quantum realities and how his grandfather inspired his latest book

The Independent UK

Sarah Jessica Parker joins Booker Prize 2025 judging panel

The Hollywood actress owns her own literary imprint.

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