News

… and five come along at once. This week’s top literary announcement is the list of the category winners for this year’s 2021 Costa Book Awards, the aim of which is to celebrate ‘the most enjoyable books of the year’ by writers who are resident in the UK and Ireland. This year’s judges have come […]

Many congratulations to South African Damon Galgut, who has won the 2021 Booker prize on his third time of being shortlisted. Galgut’s novel The Promise, published after seven fallow years, is set in South Africa during the country’s transition out of apartheid. It’s a compelling tale that explores the relationships between the members of a […]

Take three Americans, a South African, a Sri Lankan and a Briton… put them together and what do you have? No, not the opening line of a poor joke, but the fine selection of authors whose books have made it through to the Booker 2021 shortlist. The list is split by gender – three men, […]

In 2004 Susanna Clarke published Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, to critical and popular acclaim. It had taken her ten years to write. It took her sixteen to produce Piranesi ­– but the wait was worth it, for this is another triumph of imagination and creative enterprise, newly announced as the winner of the 2021 […]

Huge congratulations to all of the brilliant authors who have made this year’s Booker Prize longlist. Copies of these wonderful titles are available from the bookshop or by visiting our online storefront on bookshop.org. A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam Second Place, Rachel Cusk The Promise, Damon Galgut The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro An Island, Karen Jennings A Town […]