2025 Booker Prize speculation

[Mohamed]

Paula wrote: "Mohamed wrote: "There's a title from Orwell prize on the longlist"

Ooooh, how do you know that?"

A friend of mine (who's a friend of HER) just told me . It is a second novel

[Henk]

Mohamed wrote: "Paula wrote: "Mohamed wrote: "There's a title from Orwell prize on the longlist"

Ooooh, how do you know that?"

A friend of mine (who's a friend of HER) just told me . It is a second novel"

That sounds like Universality

[Paula]

Mohamed wrote: "Paula wrote: "Mohamed wrote: "There's a title from Orwell prize on the longlist"

Ooooh, how do you know that?"

A friend of mine (who's a friend of HER) just told me . It is a second novel"

Nice! I wonder where's Derek this year? He might know some things again!

[Emmeline]

Apart from us and Youtubers, the authors get some blame for the leaks. If I were nominated for something like that there's no way I'd breathe a word until announced, in case it turned out to be a hoax or a miscommunication!

[Ruben]

1984?

[Cindy]

Henk wrote: "Mohamed wrote: "Paula wrote: "Mohamed wrote: "There's a title from Orwell prize on the longlist"

Ooooh, how do you know that?"

A friend of mine (who's a friend of HER) just told me . It is a seco..."

Well that would be a pleasing longlisted title!

[Anna]

I knew lurking around would pay off! Very excited for the longlist, and Universality would be a nice surprise.

[Paul]

Ruben wrote: "I now hear that Praiseworthy is AGAIN not longlisted! #scandalous"

Prize is dead to me then :-)

[Antonomasia, Admin only]

Hi, just reporting in.

Hugh, I can see you have done a lot of preparation on the threads already

[Hugh, Active moderator]

Antonomasia wrote: "Hi, just reporting in.

Hugh, I can see you have done a lot of preparation on the threads already"

Thanks. No problems with captchas yesterday and we have all the topics we need now. I'll concentrate initially on creating the list of books with links.

[Hugh, Active moderator]

10 minutes to go. I will close this thread now and open the longlist discussion so it is available for instant reactions to the list.