The Palm House

Name: The Palm House
ISBN: 9781035021055

by Gwendoline Riley

Booker · 2026 · Longlist

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PicadorMarch 31, 2026Literary Fiction224 pagesISBN 9781035021055

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Booker Prize	2026	Longlist	“A note-perfect portrait of rarefied London intellectual spaces, and the people who make up that impersonal thing we think of as the Establishment. Minimalist, precise, and indelible.”

About This Book

Over a single weekend, magazine editor Edmund Putnam faces the likely loss of his job, a date, and his fiftieth birthday, while his friend Laura considers an offer to work abroad. A precise, note-perfect portrait of rarefied London intellectual life.

About the Author

Gwendoline RileyBritish

Gwendoline Riley (born 1979) is a British novelist whose debut Cold Water (2002) won the Betty Trask Award, followed by Joshua Spassky (2007), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and First Love (2017), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize, and James Tait Black Memorial Prize; her novel My Phantoms (2021) was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, and she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.