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This year’s Booker prize shortlist could feature 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

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

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

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Rebecca Perry: ‘Lorca hit me like a bolt of lightning’

The poet and novelist on the power of fairytales, being inspired by Frank O’Hara and the joys of Doris Lessing

The Guardian - UK

The Booker Prize shortlist 2026: Full list of six books and where to buy them

The long-awaited Booker shortlist has been announced – here’s what novels have made the coveted list and what they are about

Evening Standard

Previous winners Douglas Stuart and Marlon James lead Booker prize longlist

Chair of judges Mary Beard said each of the 13 books in contention for the £50,000 award ‘takes the reader to new places’

The Guardian - UK

Booker Prize longlist 2026: Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout lead nominees

The 13 books selected for the longlist features authors representing England, Ireland, Scotland, Jamaica, Mexico, Turkey and America

The Independent UK

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Rebecca Perry wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for ‘delicious and dream-like’ novel

May We Feed the King, about a museum curator and a medieval monarch, was praised by judges for its ‘crisp, cool prose’ and ‘poet’s eye for detail’

The Guardian - UK

‘Wildly original and moving reflection on history’ wins Debut Fiction Prize

Last year’s winner, The Artist by Lucy Steeds, went on to be Waterstones’ August Fiction Book Of The Month.

Evening Standard

What does it take to write your first novel? Words of advice from the hottest debut authors

‘Lost Lambs’ author Madeline Cash and ‘May We Feed the King’ writer Rebecca Perry, who are among those shortlisted for Waterstones’ Debut Fiction Prize, share their tips

The Independent UK

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry review – a dazzling puzzle-box of a debut

The plight of a reluctant medieval king is glimpsed through scattered pieces of the past, in an ingenious novel that asks how much we can really know about history

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