The Latest Breaking News from Marlon James

We’ve read the entire Booker Prize shortlist – here are the books worth picking up

Before the winner is announced on 9 November, here’s what to read

The Independent UK · 14h ago

‘Our third date was at Buckingham Palace’: Marlon James and Nicholas Boggs on life as a literary power couple

Shortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and living together – and giving a voice to Black queer history

The Guardian - UK · Oct 24

Blood of My Blood review – gripping ghost story is a reckoning with slavery

A Black British woman traces her family’s enslaved past in Joy Nesbitt’s supernaturally charged play

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10

This Booker Prize shortlist could produce award’s oldest ever winner

Only one debut novelist is among the six finalists, with previous winners including Douglas Stuart and Marlon James in the running

The Independent UK · Sep 22

I read 163 novels and these are the six best: Mary Beard on judging the Booker prize

I found being a Booker judge hugely rewarding. All the works on our shortlist will change how you see the world

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22

Previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Booker prize

The two authors are in the running for the £50,000 award alongside a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction legend, a comic writer and a debut novelist

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22

National Book Awards: Marlon James, Louise Erdrich and Karl Ove Knausgaard make long lists

Marlon James' novel “The Disappearers,” about the persecution of gay men in 1980s Jamaica, is nominated for a National Book Award

The Independent UK · Sep 17

The Disappearers: Marlon James’s new novel gives voice to the gay men Jamaica erased

Marlon James’s 2026 novel, The Disappearers, has already been hailed as the novel of the century by The New York Times, and it is certainly magnificent and explosive in equal measure. Its success lies in the way its artistic execution dovetails with its highly charged subject matter.

The Conversation · Sep 17

The Disappearers by Marlon James review – a scorching exposé of homophobia in Jamaica

This Booker-listed epic set in Aids-era Kingston is a triumph – bitter, bawdy and ravishingly queer

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24

Douglas Stuart and Marlon James lead the Booker Prize longlist

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The Independent UK · Jul 28