Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
The Booker Prize for Fiction is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK or Ireland. The shortlist for The 2020 Booker Prize was announced in September 2020. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges from 162 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2019 and 30 September 2020.
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This Mournable Body
The hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation leads us on a journey to discover where lives go after hope has departed.
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Burnt Sugar
This is a love story and a story about betrayal, picking the slippery cords of memory and myth that bind two women together, and hold them apart.
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The New Wilderness
From an acclaimed Guardian First Book Award finalist comes a debut novel ‘brutal and beautiful in equal measure’.
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The Shadow King
The Shadow King is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, and what it means to be a woman at war.
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Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride.
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Real Life
Elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate, Real Life is a campus novel about learning to live from an electric new voice in fiction.