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Douglas Stuart and Marlon James lead the Booker Prize longlist

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Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout are among Booker Prize semifinalists

Booker Prize winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running for the 2026 edition of the prestigious fiction award

The Independent UK

The Booker Prize longlist 2026: Full list of 13 books nominated and where to buy them

The long-awaited Booker Dozen has finally been announced – here’s what the novels are about, and where you can buy them

Evening Standard

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This Booker longlist may have two previous winners, but it’s keen to experiment

Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout may be names we know, but there’s a welcome element of absurdism and surrealist thought here

The Guardian - UK

Previous winners Douglas Stuart and Marlon James lead Booker prize longlist

Chair of judges Mary Beard said each of the 13 books in contention for the £50,000 award ‘takes the reader to new places’

The Guardian - UK

Booker Prize longlist 2026: Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout lead nominees

The 13 books selected for the longlist features authors representing England, Ireland, Scotland, Jamaica, Mexico, Turkey and America

The Independent UK

Your summer fiction reading list: five of the best reads of 2026 so far, according to our experts

The best summer companion is a good book. This year has already given us some truly brilliant ones making it really hard to whittle down the best. But no matter what your tastes are, we have you covered. These novels range from historical fiction to gripping crime drama. From 1800s…

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Popular author issues warning over declining reading rates in men

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Top author warns of long-term ‘hurt’ caused by men not reading

‘Shuggie Bain’ writer Douglas Stuart says ‘we’ll all feel the societal effects’ of declining literacy rates

The Independent UK

Best new books to read this autumn, from Meg Mason to Ann Patchett

From stranger-than-fiction memoirs to historical novels and essay collections, dive into these pages for autumn

Evening Standard

Booker winner Douglas Stuart reveals flashes of tenderness in his violent working-class men

Douglas Stuart’s third novel, John of John, returns to the territory that made his Booker prize-winning Shuggie Bain, and Young Mungo, so unforgettable: the intimate violence of masculinity, and the ways love persists inside families whose members cannot speak or emote plainly to one another.

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John of John: weaving an island tale of secrets that lie beneath repression and shame

Fifty pages into John of John, Douglas Stuart’s atmospheric third novel, you can almost feel the cold, damp air of the fictional Hebridean village of Falabay, and come to recognise its brooding and eccentric inhabitants like old friends and neighbours.

The Conversation

John of John by Douglas Stuart review – will a father and son come out to each other?

The Booker winner’s epic tale of gay love and loneliness in the Hebrides charts an uneasy homecoming against a backdrop of repression

The Guardian - UK

Author who says Oprah inspired his love of literature selected for star’s book club

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Oprah Winfrey selects Scottish author’s latest novel for her book club pick

Oprah Winfrey has chosen Douglas Stuart's ‘John of John’ as her latest book club

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I’m an audiobook obsessive, and these are my must-listen Audible releases for April and May

These are the six audiobooks I’m downloading for spring

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I’ve already read some of 2026’s biggest book releases – these are the 4 to look out for

Bookmark these titles for your 2026 reading pile

The Guardian - UK

Books to look out for in 2026 – fiction

Maggie O’Farrell, Yann Martel and Julian Barnes are among the authors publishing new novels this year

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16 books to have on your radar in 2026

THE LIST: No guarantees, of course, but Annabel Nugent thinks these hot titles will be some of next year’s best

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Alan Cumming to interview Val McDermid as part of literature festival

ALAN Cumming will interview Scottish author Val McDermid as part of this year’s Winter Words Festival...

The Guardian - UK

Cancelled Glasgow book festival Aye Write receives lifeline donation

£65,000 gift will not restore the full, 10-day occasion but organisers say it will make pop-up events possible

The Guardian - UK

Scottish authors criticise cancellation of Glasgow literary festival Aye Write

Val McDermid and Douglas Stuart were among many writers to express outrage after Creative Scotland turned down the literary festival funding application

The Guardian - UK

Slum Boy: A Portrait by Juano Diaz review – moving memoir that recalls Shuggie Bain

The artist and photographer’s first book is a powerful and beautifully written account of his difficult formative years in 1980s Scotland

The Guardian - UK

Rage, ecstasy and painting turned up to 11 – Edinburgh art festival review

This year’s complement to the fringe is not short of drama in Alberta Whittle and Peter Howson’s impassioned work – and there is balmy colour from Elizabeth Blackadder

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