Black Bag by Luke Kennard is a firework of a novel: an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story that is blazingly funny and profoundly humane. A penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend’s students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own, in particular can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag? Meanwhile, the actor’s childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation… Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/black-bag --- The Booker Prizes on Instagram: instagram.com/thebookerprizes The Booker Prizes on TikTok: tikto...