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The Big Eurovision Read

The Reading Agency has unveiled plans for the Big Eurovision Read, a reading-for-pleasure campaign celebrating music and reading, to mark the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, hosted in Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine on 13 May. From fiction to biographies, these 12 – or ‘douze’ titles – were curated by an expert panel of librarians to celebrate the unifying power of music.

Greetings from Bury Park: Race. Religion. Rock 'n' Roll

Sarfraz Manzoor

Space Opera: HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL 2019

Catherynne M. Valente

The Music Shop: An uplifting, heart-warming love story from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Rachel Joyce

The Madonna of Bolton

Matt Cain

Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

Stormzy, Jude Yawson

Utopia Avenue: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

David Mitchell

Broken Greek: A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs

Pete Paphides

Musical Truth: A Musical Journey Through Modern Black Britain

Jeffrey Boakye, and, Ngadi Smart

Ellie Pillai is Brown

Christine Pillainayagam

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby

The Songs You've Never Heard

Becky Jerams, and, Ellie Wyatt

Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)

Terry Pratchett

International Booker Prize 2023

On 14 March The International Booker Prize – the most significant award for a single work of translated fiction – announced the longlist for this year’s prize. The Prize is awarded annually for a novel or short story collection written originally in any language, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. Find out more about the books today.

Pyre

Professor Perumal Murugan (Professor Presidency College Chennai Translated), and, Na, An

Standing Heavy: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

GauZ, and, Frank Wynne

Still Born: Shortlisted for International Booker Prize 2023

Guadalupe Nettel, and, Rosalind Harvey

Boulder: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

Eva Baltasar, and, Julia Sanches

Ninth Building

Jingzhi Zou, and, Jeremy Tiang

The Birthday Party

Laurent Mauvignier, and, Daniel Levin Becker

Is Mother Dead

Vigdis Hjorth

While We Were Dreaming

Clemens Meyer, and, Katy Derbyshire

A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding: longlisted for the International Booker Prize

Amanda Svensson, and, Nichola Smalley

Whale: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

Cheon Myeong-kwan, and, Chi-Young Kim

Time Shelter: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

Georgi Gospodinov, and, Angela Rodel

The Gospel According To The New World: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

Maryse Conde, and, Richard Philcox

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

Andrey Kurkov, and, Reuben Woolley

The Women's Prize for Fiction 2023

The Women’s Prize for Fiction – the greatest international celebration of women’s creativity – has announced the 2023 longlist. Now in its 28th year, the Prize shines a spotlight on outstanding, ambitious original fiction written in English by women from anywhere in the world.