The Booker Prize longlist 2026

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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…

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She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King that the…

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From the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of First Love'The Palm House might be my favourite novel of 2026 so far . . . I wanted to go back to the beginning and start again' The Sunday Times'I love this book' Sarah Perry'Outstandingly…

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Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects…

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Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full…

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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 can move in with her. But when the builders finally unveil their…

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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 on…

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'A novel to marvel at ... ingenious' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH…

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FROM THE PULITZER-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED ELIZABETH STROUT COMES A STUNNING STANDALONE NOVEL OF LOVE, LONELINESS AND NEW BEGINNINGSArtie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their…

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The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO.An Oprah's Book Club pick'This summer's bestseller' - The Times'This book is special' - Colm Toibin'Passionate,…

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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…

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'Sublime... completely gripping... a wonder' MARK HADDON'Her best book yet. Completely extraordinary' DAISY JOHNSON'A real feat... the writing really, really pops' JEM CALDERA mesmerising portrait of an ageing man's…

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***SELECTED AS A 2026 BOOK TO WATCH IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, RTE***'An electrifying debut' Economist'One of the debuts of the year' Irish Times'A stylish, adroit and gritty debut' Anne Enright'A book you…