Among the 13 books featured in the 2026 Booker Prize longlist, announced Tuesday, July 28, is Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House, published in the US by New York Review Books. The judges call the book "minimalist, precise, and indelible," with "some of the best dialogue this side of Henry Green."
The shortlist of six books will be announced at a public event at the Southbank Centre, London on Tuesday, September 22, which will feature all five judges in conversation. The winning book will be announced on Monday, November 9 at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London.
Earlier this year, Riley won the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. Her other books include First Love and My Phantoms, both published by New York Review Books.