Booker Prize Winners

Pat Barker / The Ghost Road - Booker Prize Winner 1995

The Ghost Road" is a startlingly good novel ...With the other two volumes of the trilogy, it forms one of the richest and most rewarding works of fiction of recent times. Intricately plotted,...

Paul Scott / Staying on

Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of...

Peter Carey / Oscar and Lucinda - Booker Prize Winner, 1988

Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of...

Peter Carey / True History of the Kelly Gang (Hardback) - 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...

Richard Flanagan / The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Hardback)

 Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway,...

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...

Thomas Keneally / Schindler's List (Large Paperback)

  The acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, winner of the Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and the inspiration for the classic film--"a...

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...

Yann Martel / Life of Pi - Booker Prize Winner, 2002

  The story of Pi (short for Piscine), an unusual boy brought up on a zoo in India. Pi’s father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of...