Booker Prize Bindings 2025
The six shortlisted novels for the Booker Prize in their special bindings
The winner of the annual Booker Prize will be announced later today but all the shortlisted authors will receive a hand-bound edition of their own novel.
This tradition of presenting each writer with a one-of-a-kind binding of their work created by Fellows from the Designer Bookbinders society at the evening ceremony has been in place for three decades. This year's bookbinders are:
- Glenn Bartley for Audition by Katie Kitamura
- Stuart Brockman for Flesh by David Szalay
- Hannah Brown for The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
- Sue Doggett for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
- Angela James for The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
- Tom McEwan for Flashlight by Susan Choi
The two favourites for the prize are Kiran Desai and Andrew Miller. Sue Doggett bound The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Desai which tells the story of Sonia and Sunny who are both Indian immigrants to the United States, and who have a chance encounter on a train in India.
"Looking back at my sketchbook, the very first words I wrote down were 'everyone is haunted'," she said. "There are actual moments of haunting, the ghost hound (footprints in the sand, sunlight on the water – back cover), grandfather’s tobacco smoke at Cloud Cottage (silver threads – front cover) and Badal Baba, the supernatural deity that is either protective or transformational and which is a constant presence throughout the story (sits in the mountain rain on the spine of the book in his black, red and bejewelled splendour and intertwined with Sonia as leopard)."
