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.
9. LONGLIST: Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
A story of two outsiders striving to find themselves as their worlds collapse in chaos and violence, Wild Houses award-winning Irish writer Colin Barrett’s debut novel. | Rolex Anoush Abrar
10. LONGLIST: This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
Award winning American novelist Claire Messud follows the Cassars and their journey to become whole after Paris falls to the Germans in 1940. | Lucian Wood
11. LONGLIST: Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
Following two improbable best friends throughout twenty years of their lives, Enlightenment is a story of love and astronomy by British author Sarah Perry. | Sophie Davidson
12. LONGLIST: Playground by Richard Powers
Richard Powers returns to the Booker longlist for the third time, with his novel Playground. Exploring the last wild place left for humans to colonise, the sea, the book follows a group of people marked for humanity’s next great adventure. | Dean D Dixon