BOOKS & BOOKMEN: PRIZE SPECIAL
n THE 2025 Booker prize turned the clock back to an era when novelists routinely chaired its panels – and with farcical predictability, the jury (led by Jonathan Cape novelist Roddy Doyle) ultimately plumped for Jonathan Cape novelist David Szalay.
But that’s not the only way in which the UK’s premier fiction prize harks back to the past, a look at recent winners suggests. The sister PRH imprints Cape and Chatto – which waned after the rule-change welcoming Americans – are back in business, with four of the last eight laureates.