Booker Prize Winners

J. M. Coetzee / Disgrace (Hardback)

  A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to...

J.G. Farrell / The Siege of Krishnapur - Booker Prize Winner

  India, 1857 – the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned into bloody rebellion on their British overlords. The Siege of Krishnapur is set in an isolated...

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

    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...

Julian Barnes / The Sense of an Ending (Hardback) - Booker Prize Winner 2011

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit...

Julian Barnes / The Sense of an Ending - Booker Prize Winner 2011

Now a major film starring Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling*** Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form...

Keri Hulme / The Bone People

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Margaret Atwood / The Blind Assassin (Hardback) ( Booker Prize Winner - 2000 )

  “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and...

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...

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,...