Booker Prize Winners

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...

Anne Enright / The Gathering - Booker Prize Winner 2007

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot...

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...

Arundhati Roy / The God of Small Things - Booker Prize Winner, 1997

They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’ This is the story of Rahel and...

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...

Bernardine Evaristo / Girl, Woman, Other (Hardback)

 With her historic Booker win, Bernardine Evaristo is the author everyone is talking about.The standout book of 2019, Girl, Woman, Other is the number book you need to read this year.***WINNER...

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,...

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...

DBC Pierre / Vernon God Little - Booker Prize Winner 2003

  Vernon Gregory Little has secrets – but none of them, or so he assumes, have anything to do with the recent massacre of sixteen students at his high school. What he cannot see is that...

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...

George Saunders / Lincoln in the Bardo (Large Paperback)

   MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2017`It would be an understatement to call this novel an extraordinary tour de force' Sunday TimesThe extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio...

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 (Hardback)

 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...

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 / Wolf Hall (Large Paperback)

 Winner of the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the the Orange PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award`Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'Daily Mail'Our most brilliant English writer'GuardianEngland,...

Howard Jacobson / The Finkler Question (Large Paperback)

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Ian McEwan / Amsterdam (Hardback)

  On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in...

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...

Iris Murdoch / The Sea, The Sea - Booker Prize Winner 1978

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURNSIDEWhen Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his...

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.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...

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...

John Banville / The Sea (Large Paperback)

 Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly...

John Banville / The Sea - Booker Prize Winner 2005

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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...

Kingsley Amis / The Old Devils (Hardback)

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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...

Marlon James / A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardback)

  *WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015* JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From 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 (Large Paperback)

 **WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016** 'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian 'The most...

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 / Oscar and Lucinda (Hardback)

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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...

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...

V. S. Naipaul - In a Free State

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this...

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...