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...

Alan Hollinghurst / The Line of Beauty

 A huge critical success on first publication in 2004, the novel went on to win that year's Man Booker Prize. It was adapted for television and broadcast on BBC2 in 2006.It is the summer of...

Alan Hollinghurst / The Line of Beauty (Large Paperback)

One of the most critically acclaimed books of 2004, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money that brings Thatcher's London alive. Nick Guest has moved in with the...

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 (Hardback)

  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...

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...

Aravind Adiga / The White Tiger - Booker Prize Winner 2008

  Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a...

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...

D.B.C. Pierre / Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death (Hardback)

The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the...

Damon Galgut / The Promise (Hardback)

 The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor,...

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,...