The Booker Prize Shortlist 2024

Flip the script on an American classic as Huck Finn steps to the side and Jim takes center stage in a powerful, and often very funny, story of family, home and freedom.

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A multi-generational tale, told through immensely poetic prose that captures love and human connection juxtaposed against a backdrop of war and trauma, where memories transcend the boundaries between life and death.

In the new novel from the critically-acclaimed author of The Flamethrowers, a spy sent to France thinks she’s fully in control and running the show, but…

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What is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity? Short in length but expansive in ideas, Samantha Harvey’s novel is a look into life’s mundanity through an out-of-this-world experience; a spectacular feat in under 250 pages.

Obsession, desire and pain are at war in this literary still-life that takes place at an isolated house in the 1960s, where memories still shape and haunt emotional boundaries. Beautifully written with exacting, atmospheric prose, this is a remarkable debut.

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A journey of the self through solitude. Quiet and contemplative, written with deceptively simple and straightforward prose, Stone Yard Devotional is a tender meditation on hope and humanity from an acclaimed author.