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The Booker Prizes Monthly Spotlight - January 2025

The Booker Prizes celebrates the world’s most outstanding fiction, whether written in or translated into English, and each month they shine a spotlight on a different book from the Booker Library.

This month they are celebrating Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread with a reading guide, an extract, and a chance to win an Anne Tyler bundle. Access the Booker Monthly Spotlight today

We will be sharing the Booker Prizes Monthly Spotlight for you to enjoy each month.

Introducing the Booker Prizes January Monthly Spotlight: A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

Having written 20 novels in a career spanning over 50 years, Anne Tyler is a master of her craft and showcase that in a book that reflects the passage of time, while displaying Tyler’s skill in portraying the quiet complexities of ordinary American life.

The story follows three generations of the Whitshank family, revealing the events that have shaped them, the extraordinary secrets they’ve tried to keep from one another, and the ways in which our lives are far more complex than they appear on the surface. Parents Abby and Red are getting older, and difficult decisions must be made by their grown-up children about how best to look after them – and their beloved Baltimore home. At the same time, the children must navigate their own relationships and deeply ingrained sibling rivalries.

The Booker Prizes are offering a reading guide for A Spool of Blue Thread, an extract and a chance to win an Anne Tyler bundle and a Booker Prize tote bag.

The International Booker Prize 2025

The Booker Prizes have announced the dates for this year’s International Booker Prize alongside the 2025 judging panel.

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