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Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital, holds the Booker Prize trophy

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2025 International Booker Prize judges; Max Porter, Caleb Femi, Beth Orton, Sana Goyal, Anton Hur.

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Winner The Booker Prize 2024

Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey
Published by: Jonathan Cape

Orbital is the winner of the Booker Prize 2024. Six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity?

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James

by Percival Everett

Orbital

by Samantha Harvey (prize winner)

Creation Lake

by Rachel Kushner

Held

by Anne Michaels

The Safekeep

by Yael van der Wouden

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by Charlotte Wood

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The Story of the Lost Child Monthly Spotlight

Monthly Spotlight: The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

Elena Ferrante delivers a heart-wrenching end to her dazzling saga, which documents the lives of two women growing up against the backdrop of a volatile Naples, in a book that is as seductive as it is perilous

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Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck
Translated by: Michael Hofmann
Published by: Granta Books

Kairos is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024. An intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history. Translated from German by Michael Hofmann.

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Orbital

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