Chris Power

Perfect!

Unsurprisingly, Keir Starmer doesn’t know the word ‘spine’

A morning in Deptford with Karl Ove Knausgaard, an evening in Bristol with Mariana Enríquez

Love this exchange between an uncle and his niece, from Knausgaard’s new novel

Susan Choi, Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura, Ben Markovits, Andrew Miller, and David Szalay. Congratulations too to all those on the longlist.

Never been in a book club before; could never imagine being part of a better one than this. It’s been an amazing journey with these incredible people.

This was us last night just before going on stage the RFH to announce this year’s @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Congratulations to the authors:

As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here’s why you should read them | Chris Power Ben Markovits, David Szalay, Kiran Desai, Andrew Miller, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura’s books will all take you on enthralling journeys

Me in the @theguardian.com on @thebookerprizes.com shortlist www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Mavis Gallant on writing so many stories that if she published them all in one volume you wouldn’t be able to pick it up

‘M and I both secretly felt that it was the ways in which we had been damaged that had given us our power.’

Loved this. But Parade haters should move along. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How to read like a Booker Prize judge – according to Chris Power | The Booker Prizes From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, here are eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books

From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, Chris Power shares eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books ⤵️

https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s

Two youngish men sit on stage talking about books, in front of a very full audience. The background is lilac, a logo for the Edinburgh International Book Festival is off to one side. The conversation looks intense.

Full house, unsurprisingly, for Laurent Binet interviewed by Chris Power at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which is a bit of an ultimate buy one get two...

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“An Unashamed Proposal,” by Kiran Desai Look, Sunny said, however progressive my mother is, she is an Indian woman from another generation. Do you really think I can tell her that we sleep in the same bed?

For anyone curious to read Kiran Desai’s @thebookerprizes.com longlisted novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, but frustrated by its September publication date, you can read a sliver of it (in relative terms) here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes The longlist for the Booker Prize 2025 has been announced, and features a previous winner plus two debut novelists

I’m very happy the Booker longlist is now public and I can once again actually talk to people about great books I’ve read recently thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

100%. I’ll message you.

Let’s see how I’m looking after the longlist is published

Happy 80th birthday to the great man/writer/climber/lunch companion @mjohnharrison.bsky.social. It’s an honour to know you.

Of course that number degrades throughout the day!

For the Booker I was trying to read for 7 hours a day, beginning very early in the morning. Some days I didn’t manage it, sometimes I did more. I’m not a fast reader; I probably average about 40 pp/hr

Get to know the Booker Prize 2025 judges Roddy Doyle, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power and Kiley Reid reveal how they’ve made more time for reading and why talking about books is always illuminating

We saw you from across the… etc thebookerprizes.substack.com/p/get-to-kno...

Happy synchronicity! It should have won

Chris Power interview: ‘I’ve read 150 books in seven months yet still spend too much time doomscrolling’ | The Booker Prizes Chris Power, one of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, discusses how Tolkien ignited his love of fiction and how reading as part of a group can be transformative

Delighted that Booker judge @chrispower.bsky.social’s choice👇of favourite Booker book (for today) is Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room, which is one of my top picks too, and which was a shoo-in for my list☝️of genre-bending Booker books.

Chris Power interview: ‘I’ve read 150 books in seven months yet still spend too much time doomscrolling’ | The Booker Prizes Chris Power, one of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, discusses how Tolkien ignited his love of fiction and how reading as part of a group can be transformative

Me on reading a load of books. And Tolkien! And Galgut! thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

1 seat left at the IMAX for the opening weekend of The Odyssey next July

Henri Troyat on the death of Chekhov, 15 July 1904

(When James Salter read ‘Errand’ he couldn’t believe how much of the death scene Carver had lifted from Troyat)

Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn review – an extraordinary debut This brilliant short-story collection confronts the knotty truths of Northern Ireland’s bloody past

Reviewed a great book www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Oh I love that one!

Yeah

Is it possible to have too many copies of The Book of Disquiet? The Richard Zenith translation (left and right) has just been reissued in a revised version. The text has also been reset, removing any and all unintended disquiet. An incredible book; one of the true greats.

Raynor Winn has really fucked off my mum observer.co.uk/news/nationa...