2023 Shortlist

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

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Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

In her accomplished and unsettling second novel, Sarah Bernstein explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of a singularly unreliable narrator.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023. 

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

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Chetna Maroo's tender and moving debut novel about grief, sisterhood, a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself – and squash

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023.

Full of lyricism and power, Paul Harding's spellbinding novel celebrates the hopes, dreams and resilience of those deemed not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023.

An exhilarating novel-in-stories that pulses with style, heart and barbed humour, while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay cheques

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023