Booker Prize Winners

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 - 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...

Pat Barker / The Ghost Road (Hardback) - Booker Prize Winner, 1995

 Based on a mix of real and imagined characters and events, this book concentrates on Sarah, a young woman working in a munitions factory, and on Wilfred Owen. The position of women has been a...

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 / 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

This book was the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. 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...

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...

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...