English author Samantha Harvey has one the 2024 Booker Prize award with her novel Orbital.
The first book set in space to win the award, Harvey is is also the first woman to win the Booker Prize since 2019.
Following a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station across a 24 hour period while they orbit Earth, her novel Orbital is the biggest selling book on the shortlist in the UK. It has outsold the past three Booker Prize winners combined, and is the second-shortest book to win at just 136 pages long.
Meanwhile, this year’s shortlisted nominees also include Anne Michaels and previous nominee Percival Everett, whose 2001 novel was recently adapted into the Oscar nominated film American Fiction. The longlist featured works from Colin Barrett, Rita Bullwinkel and Hisham Matar.
With the winner now having been announced, here are all of the books nominated for the 2024 Booker Prize.
![Making this year's Booker Prize shortlist is award winning Australian novelist Charlotte Wood’s latest release Stone Yard Devotional. A tale of forgiveness, grief and female friendship judges praise her writing for how the juxtaposition of its "claustrophobic environment [...] reveals the vastness of human minds" while trusting readers.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/07/30/16/46/Booker-2024-longlist-Stone-Yard-Devotional-by-Charlotte-Wood-Carly-Earl.jpg?trim=0,150,0,150&crop=&width=800)
5. SHORTLIST: Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Making this year's Booker Prize shortlist is award winning Australian novelist Charlotte Wood’s latest release Stone Yard Devotional. A tale of forgiveness, grief and female friendship judges praise her writing for how the juxtaposition of its "claustrophobic environment [...] reveals the vastness of human minds" while trusting readers. | Carly Earl
6. SHORTLIST: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Exploring the legacy of one of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies, The Safekeep is Yael van der Woude’s debut novel and the first Dutch book to make the Booker Prize shortlist. Picking up 15 years after the end of the Second World War, it tells the story of Isabel as her quiet life in her rural Dutch home is upended with the arrival of her brother and his new girlfriend. Judges praise this work for its atmosphere and how it navigates the relationship between Isabel and Eva. | Roosmarijn Broersen
7. LONGLIST: Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
American author Rita Bullwinkel’s debut novel, Headshot, follows eight of the United States’ best teenage girl boxers as they face off against one another across a championship tournament. | Jenna Garrett
8. LONGLIST: My Friends by Hisham Matar
Having spent most of his life in London, British-Libyan author Hisham Matar’s novel My Friends follows three friends living in political exile. After meeting at university in Edinburgh, Khaled and Mustafa find their lives changed after attending a protest. Alongside their friend Hosam, the three are bound together by a shared history. | Diana Matar