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2020 Booker Prize shortlist announced
Diane Cook, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Avni Doshi, Maaza Mengiste, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor have been announced as the six authors shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction. Read more »
Radio 2 Book Club - The Thursday Murder Club
The next book to be featured on the Jo Whiley Radio 2 Book Club will be The Thursday Murder Club, the wonderful debut novel by Richard Osman. The book was released on 3 September and Richard will be on the show on Monday 21 September. Read more »
Maggie O'Farrell wins the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction
British author Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and is crowned the Prize’s 25th winner with her eighth novel Hamnet. Read more »
Radio 2 Book Club - Forgotten Country
The next book to be featured on the Jo Whiley Radio 2 Book Club will be Forgotten Country, the moving debut novel by Catherine Chung. The book was released on 2 July and Catherine will be on the show on Monday 7 September. Read more »
The Discomfort of Evening wins the 2020 International Booker Prize
The Discomfort of Evening, written by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison, has been announced as the winner of The 2020 International Booker Prize. The £50,000 prize will be split between Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and Michele Hutchison, giving both the author and translator equal recognition. The winner was announced by chair of the judges, Ted Hodgkinson, during a virtual celebration which was livestreamed across The Booker Prizes Facebook and YouTube pages.... Read more »