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📚 Bookies’ Favourite is your go-to book club podcast for literary award shortlists
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Booker Prize 2026 | Shortlist Reaction (opens the original)
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The Booker prize 2026 Shortlist has been announced! Aaron, Lucy & Colin share their reactions to the books & decide on a reading schedule. The End of Everything by M. John Harrison John of John by Douglas Stuart The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout Black Bag by Luke Kennard May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry The Disapperers by Marlon James We aim to upload a new episode every Friday, or so, until the winner is announced Monday,November 9th. Read along and share your thoughts on each bo
Judging a Literary Prize | Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize 2027 (opens the original)
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Bookies' Favourite are co-judging the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize 2027, alongside writers Saraid de Silva & Ben Pester. Acting as one judge on the literary prize's panel of three judges we'll work together to longlist, shortlist and find a winner from all nominated books from small presses across the UK &Ireland. We previously covered some of the books selected for the 2026 prize, including the joint winners; Ghost Driver by Nell Osborne and Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group
Booker Prize 2026 | Long List Reaction (opens the original)
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We've share our thoughts on this year's long listed books. Aaron keeps his streaky having predicted a book which made it onto the list - everyone else has failed yet again to live up to his standard, but the group choice of John of John did make it onto the list. The bookies describe each of the novels to each other and end with a Covergirl segment in which they judge the book covers. We'll be covering the shortlist of 6 books, but we have some surprise special episodes on the way beforehand. Sh
Booker Prize 2026 | Long List Predictions (opens the original)
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Welcome back to our 5th series, we're jumping into the Booker Prize 2026. In this episode we predict the Bookers dozen ahead of the announcement. Aaron, Hannah, Lucy & Colin pick 3 books eligible for the award, and combine them with the most popular choice, John of John by Douglas Stewart. They also share what other eligible books they've read. The bookies catch up with each other following the International Booker Prize 2026 winner announcement & talk about what they've been reading & listening
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