Join us on Monday 14 October for our sit-down Booker Prize shortlist dinner at Tolarno Eating House, St Kilda.

Discuss which Booker Prize-shortlisted book you think should win; which book you think probably will win; and which book will win over your dead body (chances are, that’s the one that will get the gong!). Mark Rubbo, Readings’ managing director, will be your host du jour and Jane Sullivan, literary journalist from The Age, will give you her insider knowledge on how awards work and what judges look out for.

Tickets are $125 per head and include wine, food and a $50 donation to The Readings Foundation. Please book here. Find out more about the event here.

The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English-speaking world. Past winners of the award include Anna Burns’ Milkman (2018), George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout (2016). For a full list of past winners view our collection. For more information on the Booker Prize, click here.