The Booker Prize 2026

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it has an urgency, an immediacy, a brilliant sense of place, the drama of fierce emotion repressed, concealed and volcanically exposed' - Colm Tóibín'To read John of John is to move to...

Marlon James's triumphant return to the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings 'Darkness is a mood in Jamaica . . .' The Disappearers is Marlon James's triumphant return to the Jamaica of A Brief History of Seven Killings—a place of heat and chaos, and of danger for anyone outside the heteronormal. So when eight gay men meet for...

Internationally bestselling and prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout's new novel tells the story of a chance incident in a man's life—a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, and free will in a capsizing world. Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a...

THE TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Dreamlike and baffling’ GUARDIAN ‘Extremely beautiful ... I don't think I'll read a better book this year, perhaps decade’ OBSERVER ‘A formidable book, unexpectedly compassionate’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘I loved this book so much’ SARAH JESSICA PARKER Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the...

She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. A replica pie, half-eaten, perched on a small desk in the servant's quarters. A fruit bowl, filled with artificial apples, pomegranates and pears, with one piece missing. It should feel as though her subject has just left the room; the air...

In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into an oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures? The role, eagerly accepted,...

A beautifully written and dreamlike new novel about metamorphosis, desire and magic lanterns from award-winning writer Chloe Aridjis 'One of our boldest writers' Deborah Levy A magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality. Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where...

The Palm House follows Edmund Putnam, who is just days away from the end of his 50th year. His solitary life is on the brink of change. The magazine to which he has dedicated his best decades faces closure, and Edmund is likely to lose his job this coming Monday morning. However, before this fateful event can occur, there are...

The finest book yet from the bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest—an ageing man with an unreliable mind plans the final days before he flies to Switzerland. A mesmerising portrait of an aging man's last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest. A private plane cuts through the winter night,...

SELECTED AS A 2026 BOOK TO WATCH IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, RTE 'One of the debuts of the year' Irish Times 'A stylish, adroit and gritty debut' Anne Enright 'A book you inhale, devour, grapple with, and reel from more than read' Marlon James 'Exhilarating and often frightening . . . a hugely satisfying read'...

A modern classic in the making - a heartbreaking portrait of one Turkish family caught in the tides of history, grappling with grief, exile, political oppression, and the painful absurdity of love Dilara is having her bathroom renovated. Her father's memory has started collapsing, dementia stealing a little more of him each day; her apartment must be adapted so he...

In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home's many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the mystifying Helen, whose presence still seems to suffuse every fixture. Through hearing stories of Helen's chosen way of living, the man begins to see that his story...

‘A novel to marvel at’ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH ‘Like Karl Ove Knausegaard at the end of the world’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Astonishing’ MICHAEL MAGEE ‘Left me awestruck’ HANNAH MURRAY The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other. In a famed but crumbling university city overrun...