Satire books nominated for the Booker Prizes

‘The internet - in the form of social media, at least - is much more like fiction than it is anything else.’ 

Read the opening words from Glory, an energetic and exhilarating joyride from NoViolet Bulawayo. The story of an uprising, told by a vivid chorus of animal voices that help us see our human world more clearly.

Winner of the Booker Prize 2022, Shehan Karunatilaka’s rip-roaring epic is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war. Read our extract from the book’s first section

Many Zimbabweans saw Orwell’s anthropomorphic satire as a story that could have been written just for them, but in writing Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo wanted a more revolutionary ending