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The 2017 Man Booker Prize was won by George Saunders for his polyphonic Lincoln in the the Bardo, proving perhaps that the dead can speak, eloquently. The short story writer’s first novel made him the second American to win the prize.

The year in which the pipe-smoking Kiwi Keri Hulme won the prize with her one and only novel, The Bone People. It was a win that baffled some in the tight-knit literary world.

In a freezing, isolated Siberia of 1919, James Meek poses a crucial question: under what circumstances is it justifiable to eat another human being?

The year when the prime minister, Harold Wilson, dropped in for dinner and the prize itself, for the first and only time, was won by a professional rugby league player, David Storey.

A bumper year, a face-off between old rivals, and a decision settled by the chair of judges’ casting vote. After much wrangling, the tide swept John Banville’s The Sea to victory

A feel-good tale when Anna Burns, who relied on a housing charity and food banks for shelter and sustenance as she wrote, took the prize and watched Milkman deliver huge sales

Like a corpse in a zombie-flick, the old problem of split winners came back to life and an almighty ruckus ensued when Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo shared the prize.

The pandemic prize, livestreamed in lieu of having the literary world in attendance, was a rags to rag-trade to riches story when the erstwhile fashion designer Douglas Stuart won

The Dutch debut novelist Lucas Rijneveld, also a part-time dairy farmer, professed to be 'as happy as a cow with seven udders' upon winning the prize for The Discomfort of Evening, translated by Michele Hutchison

A haunting fiction from Brian O'Doherty about a poor and isolated Irish village where all the women of potentially child-bearing age mysteriously die