May We Feed the King

Name: May We Feed the King
ISBN: 9798893380620

by Rebecca Perry

Booker · 2026 · Longlist

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Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Booker Prize	2026	Longlist	“A wonderfully enticing combination of themes, woven together with a delicacy of touch. You can’t read it without reflecting on the fragile boundary between the present and the past.”

About This Book

A curator becomes absorbed in the medieval world of a reluctant monarch in this debut about devotion, reconstruction, and the fragile boundary between the present and the past. Winner of the 2026 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026.

About the Author

Rebecca PerryBritish

Rebecca Perry is a London-based novelist and poet. Her first poetry collection, Beauty/Beauty, won the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the T. S. Read more →