Man Booker Prize
Established in 1969, the Man Booker Prize has become the leading literary award in the English speaking world. The prize is awarded annually for the best novel of the year, written in English and published in the United Kingdom.
The winner's career is transformed with the presentation of £50,000 and a guaranteed worldwide readership; in addition, each of the six shortlisted authors are awarded £2,500.
Shop the nominees below.
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
$55.00 NZD
Category: MBP 2017 | Reading Level: very good
On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of t ...Show more
Autumn by Ali Smith
$45.00 NZD
Category: MBP 2017 | Series: Seasonal
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the ...Show more
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
$26.80 NZD
Category: MBP 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' The Economist 'A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement' TLS 'Pastoral idyll, political exposé, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional c ...Show more
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
$40.00 NZD
Category: MBP 2018 | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction' Lauren Groff It's sixteen years since Gretel last saw her mother; half a lifetime to forget her childhood living on the river. But a phone call will soon bring those wild years flooding back: the sec ...Show more
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
$37.00 NZD
Category: MBP 2017 | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A breathtaking novel... that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR "It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a ro ...Show more
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
$34.00 NZD
Category: MBP 2018
Pre-read / Used. Excellent condition. Shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Farouk's country has been torn apart by war. Lampy's heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John's past torments him as he nears his end. The refugee. The dreamer. The pen ...Show more
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
$44.99 NZD
Category: MBP 2018
'This is cracking. Original, honest voices and a vivid portrayal of a London rarely seen in literature' Paula Hawkins 'A beautiful, fierce storm of a book, full of courage and hope' Jackie Morris 'Think Zadie Smith meets This is England' Independent *Longlisted for the 2018 Gordon Burn Prize* For Selvon ...Show more
Lincoln in the Bardo: Winner of the 2017 Booker Prize - HB by George Saunders
$21.85 NZD
Category: MBP 2017
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and inventedFebruary 1862. The Civil ...Show more
Milkman by Anna Burns
$32.99 NZD
Category: MBP 2018 | Reading Level: very good
In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes "interesting," the last thing she ever wanted to be. De ...Show more
Sabrina HC by Nick Drnaso
$0.00 NZD
Category: MBP 2018
"A profoundly American nightmare... The fictional killing in Sabrina is disturbing, but Drnaso doesn't fixate on the gore or the culprit; he's more concerned with how the public claims and consumes it, spinning out morbid fantasies with impunity... It's a shattering work of art."--Ed Park, New York Time ...Show more
Snap by Belinda Bauer
$18.06 NZD
Category: MBP 2018
THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Front Row 'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.' VAL MCDERMID SNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . . . On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come bac ...Show more
The History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
$55.00 NZD
Category: MBP 2017
Even a lone wolf wants to belong...Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabit ...Show more