Booker Prize Longlist features GRB event stars!

we’re delighted to see that two of our event authors this year, Marlon James and Luke Kennard, have been longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize, the UK’s most prestigious literary award. Big congratulations to two outstanding writers!

We’ll be welcoming Marlon, already a previous Booker winner, on September 23rd when he’ll be discussing his 2026 Booker-longlisted novel, The Disappearers, at the Beacon’s Lantern Hall in conversation with the wonderful Vanessa Kisuule.

The novelfollows a hard-up actor as he lands the starring role in a university professor’s experiment. The role involves him sitting at the back of a series of lectures, zipped up and hidden away in an oversized bag. As the experiment progresses, the actor’s childhood friend and flatmate plots a very 2020s-style moneymaking opportunity, bringing chewy dilemmas about – amongst other things – masculinity, the economic model’s extremes and human interaction.