# @thebookerprizes on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=tJjtvxBo7dY
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71315452-thebookerprizes-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T13:00:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Booker Prizes (@thebookerprizes) — https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes

## Caption

Watch Lewis Gribben read from John of John, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted novel by Douglas Stuart.

The story so far: Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.

Discover the book: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/john-of-john

Directed by Holly Blakey and produced in partnership with Park Pictures.

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Director: Holly Blakey
Executive Producer: Shelley Jones, Nat Baring
Production Company: Park Pictures
Booker Prizes team: Indira Birnie, Jon Davenport
Producer: Masha Thorpe
Line Producer: Lily Ashton
Director's Assistant: Sharia Johnson
First Assistant Director: Joe Mulvihill
Director of Photography: Sam Finney
Sound Recordist: Charlie Hinde
Production Design: Elizabeth El-Kadhi
Costume Designer: Jack Clements
Hair & Make-up Artist: Hannah Eccleston
Post House: Avenues Studio
Post Producer: Zeena Al-Faham
Editor: Jean-Philippe Blunt
Sound Mixer and Designer: Ines Adriana
Colour House: Pundersons Gardens
Colourist: John O'Riordan
Colour EP: Tom Viney
Colour Producer: Katie Savva

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The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize are two of the world’s most significant and influential awards for a single book. The prizes recognise exceptional works of fiction and elevate the voices of nominated authors and translators by bringing their work to a global readership. The Children’s Booker Prize, which will launch in 2026 and be awarded annually from 2027, will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children aged eight to 12 years old, written in or translated into English. 

We are driven by a simple belief that great fiction not only brings joy to millions, it has the power to change the way we think about the world and to connect people across cultures and generations. Our aim is to foster a love of reading, and to support writers and readers of the future.

Recent winners include; Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, Flesh by David Szalay, Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq and translated by Deepa Bhasthi and Orbital by Samantha Harvey. 

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| The Booker Prizes | @thebookerprizes | https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes | Awards Organization |

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