Winners of the Booker Prize
Booker Prize Public
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'We head on past the gas works under the railway bridge. The sun comes out from behind the tower blocks, …
Phil in SF says: 1996 winner
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
3 stars
The year is 1969. On the Cochin highway a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded in a workers' demonstration. …
Phil in SF says: 1997 winner
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On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects …
Phil in SF says: 1998 winner
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3 stars
David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical …
Phil in SF says: 1999 winner
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.' Thus begins The Blind Assassin …
Phil in SF says: 2000 winner
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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it …
Phil in SF says: 2001 winner
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4 stars
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew …
Phil in SF says: 2002 winner
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Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble. And it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students …
Phil in SF says: 2003 winner
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The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill …
Phil in SF says: 2004 winner
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When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both …
Phil in SF says: 2005 winner
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The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
5 stars
In the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga, in a crumbling isolated house, there lives a cantankerous old …
Phil in SF says: 2006 winner
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The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It …
Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
5 stars
MEET BALRANI HALWAI, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light …
Phil in SF says: 2008 winner
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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
3 stars
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could …
Phil in SF says: 2009 winner
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The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, …
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
