Diverse Booker prize shortlist explores faultlines of our timesSome big names missing from a final six that includes the largest number of female authors in the fiction prize’s historyThe Safekeep — a thrilling Booker-shortlisted debutYael van der Wouden’s novel is powerful tale of buried guilt, repressed desire and the lasting dispossessions of the HolocaustJames by Percival Everett — a master at the peak of his powersThe author of ‘Erasure’ reimagines Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’ — and gives an iconic American character a powerful new voiceOrbital — astronauts with a god’s-eye view of Earth Set onboard the International Space Station, Samantha Harvey’s novel makes a clarion call for our planetCreation Lake by Rachel Kushner — eco-philosophy and dirty tricksThe lauded author’s Booker-longlisted novel follows a secret agent as she monitors green activists in deepest France Held by Anne Michaels — damage limitationThe Canadian novelist’s complex, time-travelling new novel explores trauma, loss and the lasting impact of love
Diverse Booker prize shortlist explores faultlines of our timesSome big names missing from a final six that includes the largest number of female authors in the fiction prize’s historyThe Safekeep — a thrilling Booker-shortlisted debutYael van der Wouden’s novel is powerful tale of buried guilt, repressed desire and the lasting dispossessions of the HolocaustJames by Percival Everett — a master at the peak of his powersThe author of ‘Erasure’ reimagines Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’ — and gives an iconic American character a powerful new voiceOrbital — astronauts with a god’s-eye view of Earth Set onboard the International Space Station, Samantha Harvey’s novel makes a clarion call for our planetCreation Lake by Rachel Kushner — eco-philosophy and dirty tricksThe lauded author’s Booker-longlisted novel follows a secret agent as she monitors green activists in deepest France Held by Anne Michaels — damage limitationThe Canadian novelist’s complex, time-travelling new novel explores trauma, loss and the lasting impact of love
