Flesh by David Szalay was named the winner of the Booker Prize 2025 at a ceremony in London on Monday. Szalay receives £50,000 and a trophy, which was presented to him by last year’s winner, Samantha Harvey. I suppose that it’s time to put Flesh and the other nominated titles on my tbr list.

The winner and all the shortlisted authors 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

Seems like a topnotch idea.