English author Samantha Harvey has one the 2024 Booker Prize award with her novel Orbital.
The first book set in space to win the award, Harvey is is also the first woman to win the Booker Prize since 2019.
Following a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station across a 24 hour period while they orbit Earth, her novel Orbital is the biggest selling book on the shortlist in the UK. It has outsold the past three Booker Prize winners combined, and is the second-shortest book to win at just 136 pages long.
Meanwhile, this year’s shortlisted nominees also include Anne Michaels and previous nominee Percival Everett, whose 2001 novel was recently adapted into the Oscar nominated film American Fiction. The longlist featured works from Colin Barrett, Rita Bullwinkel and Hisham Matar.
With the winner now having been announced, here are all of the books nominated for the 2024 Booker Prize.
13. LONGLIST: Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
The first Native American writer to be featured on the Booker Prize longlist, Tommy Orange’s novel Wandering Stars follows generations of a Native American family as they struggle to find their way through displacement, addiction and pain to hope. | Michael Lionstar