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This year’s Booker prize shortlist is an exciting line up, melding established, prize-winning authors and debut writers. The 2023 shortlist contains two Irish authors – Paul Murray and Paul Lynch – and on the long list of 13 novels, Elaine Feeney’s How to Build a Boat and Sebastian Barry’s Old…

From a longlist of 12, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on November 26.

Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, in a year full of family sagas, is surely the standout volume, but the panel may just opt for Sarah Bernstein’s ‘spectrally vague brainteaser’

The author and film critic on the healing powers of Daniel Defoe, his love for Latin American literature and how he got Virginia Woolf wrong

The assortment of conspiracists who blockaded parliament was laughably incoherent. Yet change is coming that could awaken dark forces, says the Irish author Fintan O’Toole

‘You finish as many as you can and the other ones you put to one side after a respectable but undisclosed fraction has been read’

Shortlist announced for annual Booker literature prize includes two first-time novels among the six finalists.

All six authors are shortlisted for the prestigious award for the first time, with their work exploring themes of sisterhood, immigration, conflict and change

The judges chose the final six novels from a longlist of 13 titles.

From Sarah Bernstein’s absurdist novel to Jonathan Escoffery’s astonishingly assured debut, this year’s novels offered a full range of lived experience and made for an exciting shortlist

Chetna Maroo’s ‘mesmerising’ Western Lane has been chosen for inclusion on a male-dominated list