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...

A.S. Byatt / Possession: a Romance (Hardback) - Booker Prize Winner 1990

Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Douglas Stuart / Shuggie Bain (Hardback)

 Winner of the Booker Prize 2020Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2020The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2020***Reprinting Now!***'Douglas Stuart has written a first...

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 (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...

Howard Jacobson / The Finkler Question

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Howard Jacobson / The Finkler Question (Hardback) Booker Prize Winner 2010

'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one…’ Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC...

Howard Jacobson / The Finkler Question (Large Paperback)

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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...

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...

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...

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 - 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...

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...

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...

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...