Explore the diverse range of stories featured in this year's Booker Prize shortlist. From a retelling of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' to a poignant exploration of astronauts' thoughts on Earth, each book offers a unique and captivating reading experience.
Last year four out of six of the Booker Prize shortlist were books written by incredible Irish authors.His novel Prophet Song picked up the prestigious award.
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Spending their days watching earth, they spend most of their time thinking about it millions of miles away from it.
Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. In 1920, John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts with messages he cannot understand.
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