9 d. ago This was my favourite read of the summer – now it’s been Booker 2025 shortlisted

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

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9 d. ago 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’

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1 week ago 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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1 week ago Kiran Desai is a favorite and US authors make a strong showing on the Booker Prize shortlist

Booker Prize-winning Indian author Kiran Desai is a favorite to win the prestigious fiction award again

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1 week ago ‘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 runningChris Power: ‘As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here’s why you should read them’No debuts appear on this year’s Booker prize shortlist, which is dominated by established authors including previous winner Kiran Desai and previously shortlisted writers David Szalay and Andrew Miller.Ben Markovits, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura are also on the list, which was announced at an event at the Southbank Centre in central London on Tuesday evening. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 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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1 week ago 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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2 w. ago Panmure House Prize: Shortlist unveiled for prestigious $75,000 financial award

“This prize is about rewarding bold, rigorous ideas that can shape the future for generations to come” – Adam Dixon

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3 w. ago Mercury Prize Shortlist 2025: The full list of nominees including Pulp, CMAT and Scottish musician Jacob Alon

Fife musician Jacob Alon’s debut album has been nominated for the 2025 Mercury Prize alongside records from Pulp, CMAT, Wolf Alice and more.

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3 w. ago Rock acts Fontaines DC, Sam Fender and Wolf Alice shortlisted for the 2025 Mercury Prize

An Irish act could win for the first time in Mercury Prize history, with both Fontaines DC and pop singer CMAT shortlisted, while North Shields singer-songwriter Fender will be hoping for a homecoming triumph as the ceremony takes place in Newcastle

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3 w. ago Cmat, Pulp and PinkPantheress among Mercury prize shortlist light on new names

Only two debut albums – including the ‘token’ jazz release – feature among this year’s list of nominations for the coveted UK and Irish music prizeA raft of familiar names fill this year’s list of Mercury prize nominations, with only two debuts among the 12 shortlisted albums. In Limerence, the first full-length by the Scottish folk songwriter Jacob Alon, and Hamstrings and Hurricanes, the first by Welsh jazz musician Joe Webb, will compete with the likes of Pulp’s comeback album More, folk godfather Martin Carthy’s Transform Me Then Into a Fish and the album with the UK’s biggest opening week of the year so far, People Watching by Sam Fender.The list is split 50/50 between male and female or mixed acts. The solo female artists on the list tend to the iconoclastic: Irish pop star Cmat’s acclaimed third album Euro-Country, Leeds jazz musician Emma-Jean Thackray’s Weirdo, FKA twigs’ Eusexua and PinkPantheress’s mixtape Fancy That. As for bands, as well as Pulp, the Irish band Fontaine...

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