Portfolio Categories: Man Booker
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A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
2015 Winner: On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in […]
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The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
2010 Winner: Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship […]
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2011 Winner: Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and […]
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Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2012 Winner: Continuing what began in ‘Wolf Hall’, we return to the court of Henry VIII, to witness the irresistible rise of Thomas Cromwell as he contrives the destruction of […]
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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
2013 Winner: It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local […]
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
2014 Winner: A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma […]