The 2023 Booker Prize
Tonight, one of the most exciting literary happenings of the year took place in London with the announcement of the Booker Prize winner: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch The U.S. publisher has just pushed up the release date to 12/5, and you can preorder on Tertulia now. Shortlisters this year include the Irish family drama The Bee Sting, Jamaican immigrant saga If I Survive You, and the coming-of-age story Western Lane.
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Winner
Bethanne Patrick Is Only Here to Signal Boost & Ron Charles

Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Paul LynchA mother faces a terrible choice, in Paul Lynch’s exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational portrait of a society on the brink.


Hardcover, 2023
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Finalist
Guardian Books & Granta

Study for Obedience
Sarah BernsteinSarah Bernstein, a Canadian author based in Scotland, was recently named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, a list put out once every decade to celebrate the literary stars of the future. The Booker Prize called her book an accomplished and unsettling novel "or urgent, crystalline prose" that "upsets all our expectations, and what transpires is a meditation on survival itself."


Hardcover, 2023
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Finalist

Western Lane
Chetna MarooThis novel about an adolescent athlete was called by the Booker Prize, "a tender and moving debut novel about grief, sisterhood, a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself – and squash."
Hardcover, 2023
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Finalist

This Other Eden
Paul HardingThe latest novel from Pulitzer winner Paul Harding is a fictionalized account of a mixed race community in a resettlement off the coast of Maine in 1911. The specter of colonial violence and racism, along with the pernicious belief in eugenics, intrudes on this enclave which was once a haven meant to bring freedom and autonomy to its inhabitants.
Hardcover, 2023
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Finalist
Janet Emson & Martin Doyle

The Bee Sting
Paul MurrayThis tragicomic novel zooms in on the inner lives of an Irish family beset with its parents' midlife crises and kids' social discord. The Guardian dubbed this novel "pure pleasure" which "posits the author as Dublin’s answer to Jonathan Franzen."


Hardcover, 2023
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Finalist

If I Survive You
Jonathan EscofferyThis collection of interconnected short stories about a Jamaican family in Miami was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award and nominated for the 2022 National Book Award as Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction among other accolades.
Hardcover, 2022
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The House of Doors
Tan Twan EngLonglister: Coming out in the US in October, this novel was inspired by a story about author W. Somerset Maugham who visited Penang in 1921 to write about the story of a murder committed by an Englishwoman in Kuala Lumpur. The Booker judges called it "a magisterial and haunting tale of forbidden love and loss in the shadow of revolution and empire. This is historical fiction at its finest."


Hardcover, 2023
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Pearl: (Booker Prize Longlist 2023)
Siân HughesLonglister: This debut novel was inspired considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works of poetry. It's a folklore tale about a child's memories of her mother’s love, as she looks to her own future as a mother. "The degree of difficulty in writing a book of this sort – at once quiet and hugely ambitious – is very high," noted the Booker judges. "It’s a book that will be passed from hand to hand for a long time to come."


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Old God's Time
Sebastian BarryLonglister: Set in 1990s Ireland, this book follows a murder investigation that leads a retired police officer to confront his past. Barry is one of an elite group of authors who have been nominated five or more times for the Booker Prize.


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All the Little Bird-Hearts
Viktoria Lloyd-BarlowLonglister: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow’s lyrical and poignant debut novel offers a deft exploration of motherhood, vulnerability and the complexity of human relationships. Preorder now for release in the United States on December 5.
Paperback, 2023
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