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Post by windysisters on Sept 7, 2022 10:09:57 GMT
Booker Prize Lists 2022
The Shortlist
Glory By NoViolet Bulawayo This energetic and exhilarating joyride from NoViolet Bulawayo is the story of an uprising, told by a vivid chorus of animal voices that help us see our human world more clearly.
Small Things Like These By Claire Keegan Claire Keegan’s tender tale of hope and quiet heroism is both a celebration of compassion and a stern rebuke of the sins committed in the name of religion.
Treacle Walker By Alan Garner This latest fiction from a remarkable and enduring talent brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of the world around him.
The Trees By Percival Everett A violent history refuses to be buried in Percival Everett’s striking novel, which combines an unnerving murder mystery with a powerful condemnation of racism and police violence.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida By Shehan Karunatilaka Shehan Karunatilaka’s rip-roaring epic is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war.
Oh William! By Elizabeth Strout Bestselling author Elizabeth Strout returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any time.
The Longlist
The Colony byAudrey Magee
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
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