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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @five_books Oct 13

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Every year, we ask a member of @theBookerPrizes jury to talk us through their shortlist.
Here, judge and journalist Rebecca Liu introduces us to the 2026 finalists:

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fivebooks.com Five Books: The Best Novels of 2026: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Rebecca Liu The six novels shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize, as recommended by judge and Guardian journalist Rebecca Liu

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"Jane Austen’s genius is to write brilliantly about the world she lives in. She is a realist"
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fivebooks.com Five Books: The Best Regency Novels, recommended by Stella Tillyard Best-selling author Stella Tillyard says the 19th century Regency era (1810-1820) was a time of war and economic uncertainty.

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Among the many horrors of World War II was the construction of the Burma–Thailand Railway, where tens of thousands of prisoners dropped dead of illness, exhaustion, and malnutrition, and once strong young men were reduced to skeletal frames of flesh. Jacqueline Passman, daughter of a British prisoner of war, talks to us about the experiences of her father, Harry Silman, a doctor with the British Army who was there and kept a diary, published for the first time last year.
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Get to the bottom of things with the best mystery books, recommended by the experts. fivebooks.com/category/ficti…

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