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The 2026 shortlist features past winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart, alongside returning shortlistee Elizabeth Strout. Genres range from dystopian fiction to campus satire, from historical fiction to speculative fiction, several by authors shortlisted for the first time.
Meet a reluctant monarch fending off scheming courtiers, an out-of-work actor paid to attend university lectures inside a black leather bag, and a survivor of a 1980s homophobic attack set on retribution, alongside a beachcomber on the Kent coast, a son confronting his father in the Outer Hebrides, and a Massachusetts teacher harbouring a secret.
Chair of judges Mary Beard calls the shortlist 'writing at its best,' books that range 'from the hilarious to the discomfiting, from the powerfully shocking to the intriguingly understated.' Together, they offer meditations on identity, family, survival and the unknowability of others: moving, funny, violent and hopeful, all at once.
Shortlisted books:
John of John by Douglas Stuart
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
The Disappearers by Marlon James
The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
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