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2024 Orbitalby Samantha HarveyIn an elegy to our humanity, environment and planet, six astronauts, selected for one of the last space station missions, leave their lives behind to travel at a speed of over 17,000 miles an hour to orbit Earth, witnessing the marks of civilization below. |
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by Paul Lynch With Ireland caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack, as the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, must decide how far she'll go to save her family and what—or who—she is willing to leave behind. |
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2022 A war photographer named Maali Almeida has woken up dead. His body has been dismembered and he has no idea what happened. The suspect list is long and time is running out for Maali, even in death. Can he use the seven moons to contact those he loves most and lead them to the photos that will forever change Sri Lanka? |
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2021 The Promise by Damon Galgut"Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country - an atmosphere of resentment, renewal, and - ultimately - hope. The Promise is an epic drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of national history, sure to please current fans and attract many new ones." |
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2020 Shuggie Bain by Douglas StuartA young boy growing up in a rundown 1980s Glasgow public housing facility pursues some semblance of a normal life as his older siblings move on and his mother increasingly succumbs to alcoholism. |
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2019 (Two Winners) The Testaments by Margaret AtwoodA long-anticipated sequel to the best-selling The Handmaid’s Tale is set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead. |
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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoGirl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives. These unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class.
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2018
In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.
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2017 Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersTraces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the sixteenth president after the death of his eleven-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War. |
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2016 The Sellout by Paul BeattyA biting satire by the author of The White Boy Shuffle traces a young man's isolated upbringing and a racially charged trial that sends him to the Supreme Court. |
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2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesA tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of period social and political turmoil. |
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2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganHaunted by the death of his wife while attending brutally sick and injured soldiers at a World War II Japanese POW camp, surgeon Dorrigo Evans receives a letter that irrevocably shapes the subsequent decades of his life in Australia. |
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