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Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2025 Shortlist

The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation have announced the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing, Best Published Novel award, shortlist for 2025. Find out more here.

Babylonia

Costanza Casati

Sycorax

Nydia Hetherington

Water Moon

Samantha Sotto Yambao

Fundamentally: Shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction

Nussaibah Younis

Redemption: The UNMISSABLE thriller now shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2025!

Jack Jordan

A House for Miss Pauline: 'One of the Caribbean's finest writers' Monique Roffey

Diana McCaulay

The Society of Authors announces the 2025 shortlists for the ADCI Literary Prize, the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize and the Queen’s Knickers Award

‘Incantatory, spell-binding and resonant’ – announcing the 2025 Society of Authors’ Awards shortlists including the ADCI Literary Prize, the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize and the Queen’s Knickers Award. Find out more here.

There are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

The Hypocrite: Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2024 and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2025

Jo Hamya

Only Here, Only Now: ‘The Scottish Book of the Summer’ Herald

Tom Newlands

The Pandas Who Promised: From The World of Rachel Bright & Jim Field

Rachel Bright, and, Jim Field

The Darkest Night

Victoria Hawthorne

No. 5 Bubblegum Street

Mikolaj Pa, and, Gosia Herba

Bird is Dead

Tiny Fisscher, and, Herma Starreveld

Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings

Swapna Haddow, and, Yiting Lee

The Life Impossible

Matt Haig

Gliff

Ali Smith, and, Eliot Sumner

The Boy, the Troll and the Chalk

David Litchfield, and, Anne Booth

Alter Ego

Helen Heckety

My Friends

Hisham Matar

Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales

Catherine Cawthorne, and, Sara Ogilvie

International Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist

The 2025 shortlist for the International Booker Prize, the world’s most influential award for translated fiction, has been announced. Find out more here.

A Leopard-Skin Hat

Anne Serre

Perfection

Vincenzo Latronico, and, Sophie Hughes

On the Calculation of Volume I

Solvej Balle

Small Boat

Vincent Delecroix, Jeremy Harding, and, Helen Stevenson

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami, and, Asa Yoneda

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

Banu Mushtaq, and, Deepa Bhasthi

Radio 2 Book Club

Check out the latest books on the Radio 2 Book Club with Sara Cox. For all the latest Book Club content, including interviews with the authors, visit BBC Sounds.

The Art of a Lie

Laura Shepherd-Robinson

The Compound

Aisling Rawle

Dead Lucky: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

Connor Hutchinson

Katabasis

R. F. Kuang

The Two Roberts

Damian Barr

A Splintering: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

Dur e Aziz Amna

Artificial Wisdom

Thomas R. Weaver

Picture Perfect Booklist

Our Picture Perfect Booklist is a collection of books that prove a picture really can be worth a thousand words! This specially curated list showcases highly illustrated books, graphic novels, and powerful visual storytelling that enhances the story being told. You can then add the books from the list you’d like to read more to your TBR pile. If you have read any of the books please leave a review to help other book clubs to know more about the book and see if it’s for them.

Persepolis I & II

Marjane Satrapi

Superheroes: Inspiring Stories of Secret Strength

Sophia Thakur, and, Denzell Dankwah

Oxygen Mask: A Graphic Novel: Carnegie Medal-Winning Author

Jason Reynolds, and, Jason Griffin

Here

Richard McGuire

The Search for Carmella: A sensational new title in the ""Hidden Wonders"" series from the award-winning creator of The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish

Chloe Savage, and, Chloe Savage

Lunar New Year Love Story

Gene Luen Yang, and, LeUyen Pham

Me and My Hair

Kimberley Kinloch (SAEX), Jessica Gibson (Illustrator), and, Sandra Becker Borrée

Serena and the Little Blue Dog

Rosemary Clunie

Elena: A Hand Made Life

Miriam Gold

Chris Mould's War of the Worlds: Illustrated Edition

H. G. Wells

First Big Book of How: How do polar bears keep warm? How do keys open locks? How do spacesuits work? The ultimate book of answers for kids who need to know HOW!

Sally Symes, Saranne Taylor, and, Kate Slater

Tosh's Island

Linda Sargent, Joe Brady, and, Leo Marcell

SCRAP: The Good, the Bad and the Rusty

Guy Bass, and, Alessia Trunfio

Themed booklists

We’ve collected together some of our previous booklists on a variety of themes and topics. Take a look to find your next read.