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‘A wake-up call’: Indian American author Kiran Desai says US immigration fear offers lesson in empathy

Indian American author Kiran Desai views the current US immigration situation as a potential wake-up call for Indians. She believes the hardening of anti-immigrant rhetoric in the US offers a crucial lesson in empathy. Desai notes similar trends globally, impacting migrants and minorities. She highlights the vulnerability of the Indian…

The Times of India

‘A dark book that’s a joy to read’ – David Szalay’s Flesh was a surprise 2025 Booker Prize winner

Chair of judges Roddy Doyle was blown away by the novel

Woman & Home

David Szalay’s Flesh is the most deserved Booker Prize winner in years

COMMENT: The British-Hungarian author’s triumph caps off what has already been a wonderful year for the UK’s most prestigious award for fiction, writes Martin Chilton

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David Szalay wins Booker prize with ‘extraordinary and singular’ novel Flesh

The British-Hungarian author’s novel exploring modern masculinity was chosen unanimously as this year’s winner, says judging chair Roddy Doyle

The Independent UK

Andrew Miller is bookies’ favourite to win 2025 Booker prize

The Land in Winter has shortest odds of victory, ahead of Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

The Guardian - UK

The two authors tipped to win prestigious book prize

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Two authors named as favourites to win 2025 Booker Prize for fiction

British novelist Andrew Miller and Indian author Kiran Desai are the favourites to win the award at a ceremony in London on Monday

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Booker prize 2025: the six shortlisted books, reviewed by experts

From 150 titles to a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on November 10.

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Kiran Desai’s first novel in nearly 20 years is shortlisted for the Booker. Last time, she won it

Kiran Desai’s surname was familiar to the world of literature when her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Her mother, Anita Desai, was already an accomplished novelist, who had been nominated for the Booker three times. The Inheritance of Loss was hailed as…

The Conversation

My favourite books are in Amazon’s Big Deal Days sale: Top picks to read before the end of 2025

Whatever your literary catnip may be, it’s time to add steamy, intellectual or spooky books to your winter reading stack

Evening Standard

The Guardian view on the 2025 Booker prize: bringing posh bingo to the BookTok generation

Editorial: With this year’s shortlist announced live to the public, Britain’s most prestigious literary award is finding ways to engage new audiences

The Guardian - UK

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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One of my favourite books of the year just won the Booker Prize – and it’s 22% off on Amazon

Judge Sarah Jessica Parker described whittling down the list as “real agony”

The Independent UK

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

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Kiran Desai among top contenders for 2025 Booker Prize with first novel in 2 decades

Desai last won the Booker in 2006 with her novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’

The Guardian - UK

‘Brilliantly human’: Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist

No debut novels are among the six finalists, with established authors including Ben Markovits and previously shortlisted Andrew Miller in the running

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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

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

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The Independent UK

Booker Prize shortlist 2025: Six ‘brilliantly written and brilliantly human’ stories

Shortlisted authors are examining ‘individuals trying to live with other people’

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Sarah Jessica Parker says picking books for Booker shortlist was ‘real agony’

Actor says ‘there’s nothing casual about letting a book go’

The Guardian - UK

Kiran Desai: ‘I never thought it would happen in the US’

Since winning the Booker prize, the Indian author has spent two decades writing a follow-up. She talks about being longlisted again — and the immigration raids creating fear in her New York neighbourhood

The Guardian - 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 Independent UK

Kirkus Prize finalists include Angela Flournoy, Kiran Desai and Megha Majumdar

Novels by Angela Flournoy, Kiran Desai and Megha Majumdar, along with a memoir by Arundhati Roy, are finalists for the Kirkus Prize

The Independent UK

Fall is books' biggest season. Expect some long-awaited returns

The upcoming literary season features long-awaited works from big names like Thomas Pynchon, Angela Flournoy and Kiran Desai

Evening Standard

The Booker Prize Longlist 2025 is out! Here are the novels to read before the winner is crowned

The long-awaited Booker Dozen has finally been announced. We decode what all the novels are about, and where to buy them

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