Booker Prize Winners & Shortlists

**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025** Brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money David Nicholls I was tearing through [Flesh], I never once slowed down Jennette McCurdy Brilliance on every page Samantha Harvey So much searing insight into the way we live now ObserverThrough chance, luck and choice, one man s life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our livesFifteen-year-old Istv n lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary.

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's Atonement.

Meet Sadie Smith: seductive, cunning and going undercover the Booker-shortlisted, wickedly entertaining New York Times bestseller Hugely enjoyable SUNDAY TIMES Wonderfully seductive ALAN HOLLINGHURST Really fantastic get it!

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE AN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023 A Book of the Year for 2023 according to the Guardian, FT, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Sunday Independent, Economist, Big Issue, Daily Telegraph, Irish Times and Waterstones 'A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES.

'A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family.

THE EPIC AND EMOTIONAL NEW YORK TIMES AND TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the Booker PrizeAmazon Book of the YearTime Magazine Book of the YearWaterstones fiction Book of the Month______________'A GRIPPING HISTORICAL ADVENTURE' STYLIST'SO BEAUTIFUL, SO DARING, SO COMPLETE' TAYLOR JENKINS REID, author of Carrie Soto is Back'A MASTERPIECE' NIGELLA LAWSONEXTRAORDINARY' NEW YORK TIMES'ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE NOVELS' READER REVIEW *****_______________________A soaring, breathtakingly ambitious novel that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the modern-day Hollywood actress who plays her on screen.