Booker Prize Winners

A.S. Byatt / Possession - Booker Prize Winner 1990

  Maud Bailey is a scholar researching the life and work of her distant relative, a little known 19th-century poet named Christabel LaMotte. Roland Mitchell is looking into an obscure moment in...

Anna Burns - Milkman ( Faber Liberty HB Edition) -2019

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Anna Burns / Milkman

 WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018'Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time...

Anne Enright / The Gathering (Large Paperback) ( Booker Prize Winner 2007)

 The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what...

Aravind Adiga / The White Tiger

Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus, but you know his corpse.Meet...

Aravind Adiga / The White Tiger (Large Paperback)

 'Unlike almost any other Indian novel you might have read in recent years, this page-turner offers a completely bald, angry, unadorned portrait of the country as seen from the bottom of the...

Ben Okri / The Famished Road - Booker Prize Winner 1991

So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use.He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile...

Bernardine Evaristo / Girl, Woman, Other

 BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER'The most absorbing book I read all year.' Roxane...

Damon Galgut / The Promise (Large Paperback)

 **WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021**Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis.'Astonishing' Colm ToibinThe Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family,...

DBC Pierre / Vernon God Little (Large Paperback) ( Booker Prize Winner)

  Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue...

Eleanor Catton / The Luminaries (Hardback)

  It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to...

Eleanor Catton / The Luminaries - Booker Prize Winner 2013

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a...

Galgut Damon / The Promise

 A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut'Astonishing' Colm Tóibín'A literary masterpiece' Sarah HallThe Promise charts the...

Graham Swift / Last Orders (Hardback)

  Jack Dodds has died, and his three close friends travel together to pay their last respects and take his ashes to Margate Pier and scatter them into the sea, Jack's final wish. As the...

Hilary Mantel / Bring up the Bodies

   Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction`Simply exceptional...I envy anyone who hasn't yet read...

Hilary Mantel / Bring Up the Bodies (Large Paperback) - Booker Prize Winner 2012

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 With this historic win for BRING UP THE BODIES, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes, as well as...

Hilary Mantel / Bring Up the Bodies (Man Booker Prize winner 2012)

 The Man Booker-winning sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall. 'My boy Thomas, give him a dirty look and he'll gouge your eye out. Trip him, and he'll cut off your leg,' says Walter...

Howard Jacobson / The Finkler Question

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Ian McEwan / Amsterdam - Booker Prize Winner 1998

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 1998Two old friends – Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday – meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Molly’s lovers years...

Ian McEwan / On Chesil Beach

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to...

J.M. Coetzee / Disgrace - Booker Prize Winner 1999

Refusing to apologise after an impulsive affair with a student, David Lurie, a 52 year old professor in Cape Town, seeks refuge on his daughter’s farm where a savage and disturbing attack...

James Kelman / How Late it Was , How Late (Hardback) - Booker Prize Winner 1994

A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, How Late It Was, How Late opens one Sunday morning in Glasgow, Scotland, as Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for...

James Kelman / How Late It Was How Late

    Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He...

John Banville / The Sea (Hardback)

 When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.The Grace family appear that long ago...

Keri Hulme / The Bone People

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Kingsley Amis / The Old Devils

 Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred...

Margaret Atwood / The Blind Assassin - Booker Prize Winner 2000

Iris Chase, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist, but now eighty-two and poor, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by her once-prosperous family. While bewailing...

Margaret Atwood / The Testaments (Hardback)

 The wait is overAnd so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of...

Marion James / A Brief History of Seven Killings - Booker Prize Winner, 2015

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015. 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The...

Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Large Paperback)

With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The...

Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient - Booker Prize Winner 1992

Set in 1945, The English Patient explores the lives of four very disparate war torn people, a young woman and three men, who take refuge in a damaged villa north of Florence as the war...

Paul Beatty / The Sellout

 Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times`The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian`The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel...

Paul Lynch / Prophet Song

The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism.On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front...

Paul Lynch / Prophet Song (Large Paperback)

 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four...

Peter Carey / True History of the Kelly Gang (Large Paperback) Booker Prize Winner 2001

This story is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. The author gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief,...

Peter Carey / True History of the Kelly Gang - Booker Prize Winner 2001

In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bushranger himself is speaking from...

Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Booker Prize Winner, 1994 Reprint

It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can’t stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their...

Roddy Doyle / Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Hardback) - Booker Prize Winner 1993

Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and...

Roddy Doyle / Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Booker Prize Winner, 1993

It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can’t stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their...

Salman Rushdie / Midnight's Children - Booker Prize Winner

Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India’s independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself...

Shehan Karunatilaka / The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Large Paperback)

 A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil warColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a...

Thomas Keneally / Schindler's Ark ( Schindler's List ) - Booker Prize Winner

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist became a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. This is the story of Oskar Schindler, a womaniser and drinker who risked his life to...

Thomas Keneally / Schindler's List ( Booker Prize Winner

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Yann Martel / Life Of Pi (Large Paperback)

 After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a...