The Booker Prize 2024 Winner
It is our great pleasure to confirm Orbital by Samantha Harvey as the winner of the Booker Prize 2024.
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A luminous, deeply hopeful saga of six astronauts in space reflecting on life back down on their home planet, Orbital delivers its urgent warning of impending eco-catastrophe by honing in on the immense beauty at stake in humanity’s gamble with Planet Earth.
“She makes our wounded world something for contemplation, something deeply resonant... with her language of lyricism and acuity Harvey makes our world strange and new for us... a classic book, one of the great Booker novels.”
Edmund de Waal, Chair of Judges
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A breathtakingly accomplished retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the enslaved Jim, Everett's tour de force reclaims the character's voice from the literary margins with power, precision and dazzling wit.
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Combining an urgent message about the state of our planet - and us humans - with luminous hope and a refusal to sink into despair, the author of former Book of the Month The Western Wind delivers an affectionate, deeply human saga of six astronauts in space reflecting on life back down on Earth.
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A tragi-comic tour de force from the acclaimed author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room, Kushner's parodic spy yarn-cum-novel of ideas centres on a gang of radical eco-activists, their charismatic leader and the glamorous undercover agent sent to infiltrate their commune.
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A poetic, intricate exploration of war, injury and home from the author of the acclaimed Fugitive Pieces, Held jumps backwards and forwards in time as the devastation felt by an invalided WWI soldier recurs through generations.
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An ethereal, haunting novel with a howl of screaming rage at its core, van der Wouden's extraordinary debut sees tensions between two women in early-60s rural Holland reach boiling point over the course of a sweltering summer.
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Mining themes of guilt, forgiveness and loss, this profound, otherworldly novel from the author of The Weekend finds a woman in a secluded outback community confront three disturbing visitations.