The Booker 2021 Shortlist
The final shortlist of six novels has been revealed for this year's Booker Prize. As always, the lucky winners will be the readers.
The Booker Prize for Fiction is open to works by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From a prize winning Sri Lankan author, a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality. It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom o ...Show more
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, petty criminal. He is a smooth-talker with rakish charm and an eye for a good game. He is many things, but he is not a murderer. ...Show more
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning The OverstoryPicked as one of the 'Best Books of 2021' in the Sunday Times and a finalist for the Booker Prize. Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to sear ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dia ...Show more
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freed ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two te ...Show more
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