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The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley

Two friends in a pub by the Thames, a magazine falling into the wrong hands, and a chapter that will knock the wind out of you. Gwendoline Riley's eighth novel is the finest piece of writing on the Booker Prize 2026 longlist.

Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman

A disgraced professor tours a house in the country and is offered something stranger than a mortgage. Makenna Goodman's short, savage novel is the most formally daring book on the Booker Prize 2026 longlist.

The Booker Prize 2026 Longlist: All 13 Books Explained

All thirteen novels on the Booker Prize 2026 longlist, what each one is about, what the judges said, and our ranked prediction for the 9 November winner.

The Acorn Stories: Texas Tales by Duane Simolke

Step into Acorn, Texas (population 21,001), in this in-depth review of The Acorn Stories: Texas Tales by Duane Simolke. Linked literary short stories full of secrets, scandals, romance, and warmth. Perfect for book clubs and lovers of small-town fiction.

The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

Kate Quinn ventures into magical realism with The Astral Library, a fierce love letter to libraries where books choose their readers and stories fight back. A sharp, witty fantasy about found family, literary refuge, and defending sanctuaries.

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Artemis by Andy Weir

Jazz Bashara checks her bank balance every day like it might have grown on its own. She needs 416,922 slugs. Not four hundred thousand, not half a million. That precise figure. She will not tell anyone why, and the answer, when it finally arrives, is the best thing in the book.

From Book Clubs to BookTok: How Reading Communities Have Moved Online

See how book clubs evolved into BookTok, Goodreads, Discord, and other online spaces where readers share recommendations, reactions, and opinions.

Promise Me Never by Liv Constantine

A famous novelist orders his wife's dinner without asking. The first wife tells him never to do that again. The second wife thanks him for being thoughtful. Constantine builds an entire novel out of the gap between those two women, and the gap is where the danger lives.

Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley

Four people narrate this novel and every one of them is labelled: The Help, The Wife, The Star, The Friend. There is no chapter marked The Detective. Miss Marple is watched for four hundred pages and never once given the microphone, and that decision turns an authorised Christie continuation into something genuinely strange.

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