Portfolio Categories: Prize Winners
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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 Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2010 Winner: The heartbreaking story of a man’s search for safety, of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born […]
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The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obrecht
2011 Winner: As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising villagers, the body of her grandfather turns up in a hospital in the middle of nowhere. She […]
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
2012 Winner: Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, […]
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
2011 Winner: New York, August 1974. A man is walking in the sky and the city stands still, captivated by this sight, awe and disbelief filling the streets. Philipe Petit […]
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Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
2012 Winner: On a still and frozen day between Christmas and New Year, a man’s body is found lying in his ruined flat. Found, and then taken away, examined, investigated […]
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Pure by Andrew Miller
2011 Winner: A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love…A […]
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Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2012 Winner: Continuing what began in the Man Booker Prize-winning ‘Wolf Hall’, we return to the court of Henry VIII, to witness the irresistible rise of Thomas Cromwell as he […]
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Tinkers by Paul Harding
2010 Winner: An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, […]
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2011 Winner: Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although […]