Booker Prize 2024
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Browse below for this year's longlisted titles. The shortlist for the prize will be revealed on 16 September, and the winner will be announced on 12 November.
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France. A thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty is ...Show more
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering ...Show more
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge. It's fifteen years since the Second World War and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the conflict is well and truly over. Living ...Show more
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An unforgettable story of love, faith and science, Enlightenment is Sarah Perry's finest novel to date Thomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers at the Bethesda Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits - torn ...Show more
James by Percival Everett
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker prize, James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is ab ...Show more
Wild Houses: One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024 by Colin Barrett
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo's enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll - Cill ...Show more
Held by Anne Michaels
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows' MARGARET ATWOOD The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces- a soaring and luminous story of chance and change 1917. On a battlefield near the ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
This Strange Eventful History: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 by Claire Messud
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 **AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK**A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK* 'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun Li June ...Show more
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below 'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas' GUARDIAN 'Stunning... An uplifting book' SUNDAY TIMES A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific e ...Show more
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls' pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life with electric energy, and a po ...Show more
Playground by Richard Powers
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
She had the ocean. And the ocean absorbed all her hope and excitement, all her panic and pain and love, into a place far larger than anything human. Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the ...Show more