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Prizewinners 2025

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025From Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey, author…

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Translated by Deepa BhasthiWinner of the International Booker Prize 2025In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.…

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WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025These expertly arranged diaries offer a window into the life and work of one of Australia's greatest living writers'I revere Helen Garner's writing, and it's in her diaries that she's at her…

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*Winner of the British Academy Book Prize 2025**Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2025*A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500…

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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025'A house is a precious thing...'An exhilarating tale of twisted desire,…

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Winner of the 2025 Goldsmiths PrizeWhen a famous conceptual artist's installation project suddenly vanishes, the sinister aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives,…

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Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025These poems emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise…

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Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025Wellwater demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, Wellwater conducts a…

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WINNER OF THE JERWOOD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONA piercing debut about how we are made, how we get lost and how we find new selves.Framed by the story of escape…

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