Booker Prize

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Is anyone reading the Booker nominees this year? What's your favourite, and what do you think will win?

I've just finished reading 'Books: A Manifesto or, How to Build a Library' by Ian Patterson, pubished last year. There's a mention of M John Harrison:

"...we find elements of science fiction but used for a more existential teleology, with stange things sensed, an air of uneasiness, a lostness, as well as what Harrison himself has summed up as 'the psychic stuctures & contemporary repressed tragedies of alienation, dissociation, loneliness & paranoia under contemporary politics.'"

Upthread I wondered if all M John Harrison's books were like this Booker winning one. I think I have my answer...

For her new novel The Strangers published in September 2026?

She's also published a non fiction book with the title Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake today, that I've bought on Kindle, but the publication date was too early for the Women's Prize 2027 - I thought it might have been new out this year but it was actually published in 2025.

Yes for The strangers. I think the new Claire Fuller maybe and Chloe Benjamin's Under story.

Women's Prize 2027 thread - longlists don't come out until February and March but books published from 1 April this year until 31 March 2027 are eligible, so some of us might have read the winner already!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/what_were_reading/5598818-womens-prize-for-fictionnon-fiction-2027-advance-discussion-thread