Prizewinners 2024
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'GUARDIAN'Stunning... An uplifting book'SUNDAY TIMESA team of…
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024Translated by Michael Hofmann'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- you'll be reeling for days and weeks to come.' - Neel…
Recommended by Victoria
‘This is philosophical fiction at its peak. Parade contains four long chapters that interweave the lives of four different artists – all called G, two men, two women – with the life of the first-person narrator and her husband. Like the characteristic covers, Cusk’s prose is clean and deceptively simple while asking some of the most difficult existential questions: what does it mean to create (produce?) art? Is it anything like creating (producing?) a child? Do the answers to those questions differ depending on whether you are a man or a woman? (Parade’s answer is surely ‘yes’, but in interesting ways.) If we are creations (products?) of our own parents, what do we owe them? In true Cusk fashion, Parade is a novel in which the action is pared down to moments that could be life-changing, if only we recognised them as such.’
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WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2024 A New Yorker Book of the YearAbout one woman’s fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latch – with its ruthless concision and artful mysteries – is…
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WINNER OF THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2024Translated by Zoë PerryAnimals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil.In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the…
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WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2024 BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR'Mesmerising' Sunday Times'Magnificent' Guardian'Monumental' The TelegraphLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her…
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024"A heart-breaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war. This beautiful, nuanced novel follows a young doctor caught within conflicting ideologies as she tries to save lives. I…
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024A wild ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine*WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**THE…
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WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE - BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024Inspired by a true story, The Home Child is a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home‘Ground-breaking’ Benjamin Zephaniah * ‘Beautifully…
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WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how…
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WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 NON-FICTIONFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author, Laura Cumming, a kaleidoscopic memoir connecting her life as an art critic with the vivid world of her father's paintings and those of the…
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WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2024A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit. The collection…
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WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2024Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2024Winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize 2021Poetry Book Society Special CommendationMarjorie Lotfi’s award-winning debut…
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WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING 2024Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and – because many have never been recorded – when they’re gone, it…
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WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024 Winner of the Jhalak Prize & Plutarch Award | A New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME Book of the Year 2023'Fabulously…
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WINNER OF THE JHALAK CHILDREN’S & YA PRIZE 2024'Safiyyah's War has the soul of a classic & the urgency of a story for our times. A tale of tolerance, unthinkable bravery, and heart-in-mouth true events. I loved this book'…
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WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR WRITING 2024 A spellbinding novel told in poems, blending the ancient legend of Theseus and the Minotaur with the quest of a modern-day teenage boy to find his biological father.In his new verse…
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WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR ILLUSTRATION 2024 A spectacular time-lapse portrait of humankind – and our impact on the natural world – from an award-winning master of the wordless form.For his latest feat of…
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