2020 Booker Prize longlist

The hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation leads us on a journey to discover where lives go after hope has departed.

This is a love story and a story about betrayal, picking the slippery cords of memory and myth that bind two women together, and hold them apart.

A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation, this is a story of a London you won’t find in any guidebooks.

From an acclaimed Guardian First Book Award finalist comes a debut novel ‘brutal and beautiful in equal measure’.

The Mirror and the Light is the long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.

Apeirogon A Novel – named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides – is a tapestry of friendship, love, loss and belonging.

The Shadow King is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, and what it means to be a woman at war.

An extraordinarily deft debut about power dynamics, race, social commentary, and also why and how we are the woman we are.

Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride.

Elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate, Real Life is a campus novel about learning to live from an electric new voice in fiction.

Redhead by the Side of the Road is an intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who sometimes finds those around him just out of reach.

Inspired by some of the best-known thought experiments in philosophy, particularly philosophy of mind, Love and Other Thought Experiments is a story of love lost and found across the universe.