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Booker Prize shortlist spans Kingston to the Hebrides (opens the original)
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Two former winners are among the six authors on the 2026 Booker Prize shortlist, announced on September 22. Marlon James returns with The Disappearers, having won in 2015 for A Brief History of Seven Killings. Douglas Stuart, who won in 2020 for Shuggie Bain, is in contention with John of John. Only four writers have won the prize twice. A judging panel chaired by classicist and broadcaster Mary Beard chose the shortlist from 163 submissions and a longlist of 13 novels. Her fellow judges are poe
The lies we tell to protect the people we love (opens the original)
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Bitter Honey tells the story of Nancy and her daughter Tina, from Nancy’s arrival in Sweden in 1978 to Tina’s rise to fame nearly 30 years later. Nancy comes to Stockholm from Gambia on a scholarship, planning a political career and hoping one day to become president of Gambia. Nearly three decades later, Tina is a Swedish pop star preparing for Eurovision when Lars Wikström walks into her dressing room. Tina has always believed her father was dead, so meeting him changes everything she thought
Sisters' secrets shape new novel set in Ghana (opens the original)
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Born and raised in London to Ghanaian immigrant parents, Krystle Zara Appiah is one of five sisters. She visited Ghana as a child but remembers little of those trips. In 2017, she returned as an adult, started spending more time there and has gone back regularly since. Family, especially the relationships between women, now runs through much of her fiction. Her 2023 debut, Rootless, explored a British-Ghanaian couple whose marriage begins to break down when they want different things from life.
Five new novels to read this spring (opens the original)
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Phila Maseti, first introduced in Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s The Broken River Tent in 2018, is older now and dealing with the loss of his wife and a growing distance from his daughters. When he is asked to write a biography of South African writer and journalist Bloke Modisane, the work takes him into questions about family and belonging that have been sitting with him for years. His research moves between Cape Town and Europe as he traces Modisane’s life and looks at the stories South Africa has prese
A life lived in shackles is a life in vain (opens the original)
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The hardware of war is on full display in a phantasmagoria of savagery. Dancing and cheering beneath white Taliban flags, revellers take selfies as they move through the streets carrying AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. Armoured vehicles and abandoned Humvees roll past the shuttered former US embassy at Ahmad Shah Massoud Square as military helicopters fly overhead, scattering flowers over a parade of male athletes. Cars and motorcycles carry dummy yellow fuel canisters like those used for
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