Orwell Prize Finalists 2024
'What I have most wanted to do ... is turn political writing into an art.'
Every year, The Orwell Foundation awards prizes for the work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’.
The Orwell Prizes aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics. The winning entries should strive to meet Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. They should be of equal excellence in style and content – the writing must be both political and artful.
James by Percival Everett
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, 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 overhe ...Show more
My Friends by Hisham Matar
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Return comes an astonishing new novel about friendship, set between London and Libya in the 1980s and the present Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh- two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of re ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer t ...Show more
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below. A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, cir ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more
The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Marie Antoinette meets Gossip Girl in this supermodern novel of scandal and slander, from the two-time Granta Best Young British Novelist A wild story of female friendship, language and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment- a historical novel like no other. ...Show more
Our Enemies will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Pre-order the revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent ...Show more
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo
36.99 AUD
Category: History
An extraordinarily dramatic reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable- they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic. Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of r ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
36.99 AUD
Category: Science
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
‘Epic, moving and important’ Robert Harris From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War. Daniel’s mother Mirjam Wiener w ...Show more
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
* Shortlisted for Fiction - 2023 Nero Book Awards *After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family...'Ambitious and original' DAVID NICHOLLS'Gripping... a triumph' SUNDAY TIMESIt's 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate, the finger o ...Show more
Ocean Stirrings - A Work of Fiction in Tribute to Louise Langdon Norton Little, Working Mother and Activist, Mother of Malcolm X and Seven Siblings by Merle Collins
49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A mix of fictive narrative, letters and poetry, with episodes of great warmth, exuberant humour, drama, and heartbreak, telling a story of Louse Little. The mother of the revolutionary firebrand Malcolm X was a Grenadian woman born at the turn of the 20th century in a small rural community in a deeply c ...Show more