
The Booker Prize 2022 Shortlist
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The Booker Prize 2022 Shortlist

We are thrilled to present the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist. Explore these extraordinary novels and support independent bookshops!

Treacle Walker
Alan Garner
£8.99 £8.54'A mysterious and affecting glimpse into the deep work of being human. This one made some of us cry.'

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
£16.99 £16.14'A Sri Lankan whodunnit and a race against time, Seven Moons is full of ghosts, gags, and a deep humanity.'

Oh William!: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
Elizabeth Strout
£9.99 £9.49'One of those quietly radiant books that finds the deepest mysteries in the simplest things.'
The 6 books on this year’s shortlist were chosen by the 2022 judging panel: cultural historian, writer and broadcaster Neil MacGregor (chair); academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari; historian Helen Castor; novelist and critic M John Harrison; and novelist, poet and professor Alain Mabanckou.
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Their selection was made from 169 novels published between 1 October 2021 and 30 September 2022 and submitted to the prize by publishers. Coincidentally, this year’s longlist includes the first and last book the judges read. The Booker Prize is open to works by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.