The Booker Prize 2024
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Orbital gives a snapshot of one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space. The astronauts have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives as well as their experiences with each other in space. The novel is a meditation on space and an elegy to our humanity, environment, and planet.
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Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Creation Lake is a novel about 'Sadie' who is a ruthless secret agent sent to spy on a subversive group of activists in France. She becomes entranced by a mysterious figure named Bruno who communicates only by email. The novel is a page-turner which will appeal to fans of noir fiction.
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Held by Anne Michaels
John tries to rebuild his life after World War 1 but he is haunted by ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. What follows is a story that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds.
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James by Percival Everett
James is a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. While many of the central events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
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Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood. She begins a reclusive, monastic life with a small religious community where she is haunted by thoughts of her mother, whose early death she can't forget. Three disturbing visitations interrupt her secluded life and force her to face some deep questions.
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The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961. This novel is a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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