Book Awards

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...

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...

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...

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,...

A 'Book to Read in 2026' in the Guardian, New Statesman, and Irish Times A 'Best Book in 2026 So Far' in The Daily Telegraph 'I don't think I'll read a better book this year, perhaps decade' - Helen Macdonald, The Observer 'Harrison is without peer as a chronicler of the fraught, unsteady state we're in' - Olivia Laing 'The...

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...

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...