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Sarah Jessica Parker gets a ‘golden ticket’ to the judging panel of 2025 Booker prize

Sex and the City star says it is ‘the thrill of a life’ to be appointed to 2025 panel alongside Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to pick year’s best novel

A wardrobe that includes custom-made Chanel, vintage Vivienne Westwood and a towering Dolce & Gabbana golden crown featuring a miniature nativity scene, worn to the Met Ball, will up the ante at a ceremony not generally known for its fashion moments. Carrie Bradshaw, Parker’s alter-ego on Sex And The City, framed the actor as chick-lit adjacent, but as executive producer on the sequel And Just Like That, she worked with publishing houses to give a platform to young novelists by featuring their books on screen. Authors hoping to make the grade will find clues to her taste on social media, where she recently posted a photograph of a suitcase stuffed with holiday reading, which included the forthcoming Flesh by David Szalay, described by writer William Boyd as “mordant, knowing and disturbingly wise”, and Havoc by Christopher Bollen, a Luxor-set thriller of Highsmithian sophistication with an unreliable narrator.

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