Booker Prize Winners

Anita Brookner / Hotel Du Lac - Booker Prize Winner

Hotel du Lac tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, E

Anna Burns - Milkman ( Faber Liberty HB Edition) -2019

Liberty fabric covered editions bring classics from the Faber backlist together with important modern titles, putting them in conversation and celebrating both the history and the future of Faber &...

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.' -...

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 heap;...

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 Estha,...

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...

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 the quirky...

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 crash and burn of a white...

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 journey...

Hilary Mantel / Bring Up the Bodies (Man Booker Prize winner 2012)

 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 Cromwell in...

Howard Jacobson / The Finkler Question

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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 before their...

Ian McEwan / On Chesil Beach

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to...

Ian McEwan / On Chesil Beach (Hardback)

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to...

James Kelman / How Late it Was , How Late (Hardback) - Booker Prize Winner 1994

A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, How Late It Was, How Late opens one Sunday morning in Glasgow, Scotland, as Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting, awakens...

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 summer...

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...

Kazuo Ishiguro / The Remains of the Day

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Keri Hulme / The Bone People

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Kingsley Amis / The Old Devils

 Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when...

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 telling what lay...

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 (Hardback)

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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 retreats...

Nadine Gordimer / The Conservationist

    Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and...

Pat Barker / The Ghost Road (Hardback)

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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 Beatty / The Sellout

 Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times`The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian`The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've...

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

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 (Large Paperback) 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 - Booker Prize Winner, 1994 Reprint

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 names are...

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...

Samantha Harvey / Orbital

Life on our planet as you've never seen it before.Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data and conduct scientific experiments. But...

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...