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Book awards

  • Monday, 27 April, 2026
    The Bracken Prize for Young Authors 2026
    FT and Standard Chartered Bracken Prize for young authors opens to entries

    Award will go to the best original business book proposal by an author aged under 35

    Logos for Financial Times, Standard Chartered, and Nikkei with text reading "The Bracken Prize" on a dark blue background with a pen illustration.
  • Friday, 10 April, 2026
    Fiction
    She Who Remains — rites and wrongs in the Accursed Mountains

    Rene Karabash’s tale of a ‘sworn virgin’ in a remote corner of Albania is a worthy shortlistee for the International Booker Prize

  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2026
    Fiction
    What Am I, A Deer? — Polly Barton’s love letter to karaoke

    The translator’s debut novel is a funny, moving and skilfully crafted story of obsession, performance and the fantasies that drive people to action

    A man sits on a willow tree branch holding a blue and green umbrella, with rain and a pond in the background.
  • Tuesday, 31 March, 2026
    Fiction
    The Witch by Marie NDiaye — spellbinding

    Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, this dreamlike, unsettling tale explores the terror and sorrow of a mediocre sorceress with meagre talents

  • Tuesday, 10 March, 2026
    Fiction
    Women Without Men — Shahrnush Parsipur’s powerful tale of misogyny and escape in Iran

    The Booker-longlisted novel follows the interwoven stories of five characters in search of new, sometimes surreal, destinies

    Veiled women gather and sit in groups in a city square, with men standing and walking nearby and traditional buildings in the background.
  • Friday, 6 March, 2026
    Fiction
    Taiwan Travelogue — a Booker-longlisted novel on the tricks of translation

    At the heart of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s rich, heady book is the uneasy bond between a Japanese author and her Taiwanese interpreter

    A black-and-white photograph from the 1930s of people walking and cycling past a busy city centre department store.
  • Friday, 6 February, 2026
    Fiction
    The Roof Beneath Their Feet — on higher ground

    International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree’s 2001 novel, now available in English, is a compassionate story of class, desire and friendship

    Geetanjali Shree smiles and looks slightly to the side, wearing a red scarf and patterned earrings.
  • Wednesday, 14 January, 2026
    Books
    FT & Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year 2026

    The best business books selected by our judges

  • Wednesday, 14 January, 2026
    The Bracken Prize for Young Authors 2026

    The FT and Standard Chartered want to encourage young authors to tackle emerging business themes

  • Wednesday, 14 January, 2026
    FT & Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year 2026
    FT book award enters new partnership with Standard Chartered

    Bank to back Business Book of the Year and Bracken Prize for Young Authors for next three years

    Illustration of a book on a pedestal with its cover reading: ‘Business book of the year 2026’, with the Financial Times and Standard Chartered logo above it and ‘in partnership with Nikkei’ written below
  • Friday, 12 December, 2025
    FT Books Essay
    Screen grab: can books win the battle for children’s attention?

    Prizes, publishers and government programmes have joined the battle to reverse the decline in young peoples’ love of reading

    A little girl and a young woman lie on a couch in a room with a shaft of sunlight, reading a book together, with toys and books nearby.
  • Friday, 5 December, 2025
    FT & Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year 2026
    Interview. In future ‘books could respond’ says winning author Stephen Witt

    Writer of ‘The Thinking Machine’ about Nvidia’s rise believes in the vast potential of AI

    Stephen Witt sits in a chair looking to the side, wearing a light blue shirt and grey trousers.
  • Wednesday, 3 December, 2025
    FT & Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year 2026
    Stephen Witt wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year

    ‘The Thinking Machine’ tells the inside story of how Nvidia became the world’s most valuable corporation

    Stephen Witt sits at a table with stacks of his book, ‘The Thinking Machine’, preparing to sign a copy.
  • Thursday, 20 November, 2025
    The best books of the year 2025
    The best fiction to read this year

    Maria Crawford selects her must-read titles

  • Friday, 14 November, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Interview. Booker winner David Szalay: ‘What can the novel do better than film or TV?’

    The author of the prizewinning ‘Flesh’ on his ‘white space’ narrative, his outsider perspective — and the importance of taking risks

    David Szalay poses against a plain background, wearing a dark zip-up seater and looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.
  • Monday, 10 November, 2025
    Fiction
    David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ wins the 2025 Booker Prize for fiction

    Judges praise ‘singular achievement’ of sparsely written novel that traces a man’s unlikely social ascent from Hungary to the world of London’s super-rich

    David Szalay sits in an auditorium holding a copy of his book ‘Flesh’, with rows of empty seats behind him
  • Thursday, 6 November, 2025
    Books
    Interview. Baillie Gifford winner Helen Garner — ‘I’ve been walking around like a stunned mullet all day’

    The celebrated author talks about why she stayed in her native Australia, the moment she won the UK’s top non-fiction prize this week and her delight that her diaries are being appreciated as literature

    Helen Garner sits in a sunlit cafe, leaning against a brick wall and smiling gently at the camera.
  • Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
    Books
    Helen Garner wins the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize

    The celebrated Australian author wins the prestigious non-fiction award for ‘How to End a Story’, her diaries spanning three decades

    Helen Garner
  • Thursday, 9 October, 2025
    Fiction
    László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

    The Hungarian author, described as a ‘great epic writer in the central European tradition’, won the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. We look back at the FT’s reviews of his novels and novellas

    A smiling man with grey hair and a trim beard wearing a black shirt and blazer stands in a room next to a window
  • Thursday, 9 October, 2025
    László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
    Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize

    Dystopian novelist recognised for his ‘compelling and visionary oeuvre’ in the central European tradition of Franz Kafka

    László Krasznahorkai outdoors in a light brown jacket and white shirt, attending the "Letterature" Festival in Rome
  • Thursday, 2 October, 2025
    Baillie Gifford Prize 2025: the shortlist
    Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 shortlist — from terrorism to Tennyson

    Judges celebrate the breadth of a list characterised by ‘candour and courage’

    Six books on a shelf
  • Wednesday, 1 October, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Baillie Gifford Prize 2025: the shortlist

    From the life of Tennyson to 1970s terrorism, a history of slavery to the epic journey of a single wolf, here are the FT critics’ verdicts of the six books competing for this year’s award

  • Wednesday, 24 September, 2025
    Booker Prize 2025: the shortlisted novels reviewed
    The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — a Booker-shortlisted timeless tale of thwarted lovers

    Kiran Desai’s long-awaited third novel is a cross-continental romance that explores displacement, family, ambition and identity

    Illustration formed of various silhouettes of two couples, a dog, with historic and modern buildings, a train and a bridge in the background
  • Wednesday, 24 September, 2025
    FT & Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year 2026
    FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 — the shortlist

    Six finalists analyse important business issues from economic warfare to AI

    Montage of the covers of the six books on the shortlist
  • Tuesday, 23 September, 2025
    Fiction
    Booker Prize 2025: the shortlisted novels reviewed

    The FT critics’ verdicts on the six contenders for this year’s fiction prize, the winner of which will be announced on November 10

    A pile of six hardback books on a desk
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