Light the beacons and alert your book club — the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist has been revealed.

Whittled down from the ‘Booker dozen’ of 13 new works of fiction, this year’s judging panel included Sarah Jessica Parker . The star of stage and screen has her own literary imprint, and attended the press briefing wearing a fabulous pair of Jimmy Choo stiletto python-printed boots (first debuted in 2000, but re-issued as part of a collaboration with Connor Ives for The Archive: 1997—2001 collection).

Irish novelist Roddy Doyle is heading up the jury as the chair of judges, with the panel that also includes Booker Prize-longlisted authors Ayobami Adebayo and Kiley Reid, alongside author and literary critic Chris Power.

Doyle said he favours a traffic-light system, whereby each jury memb

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