“Orbital” is enjoying some popular as well as critical success. The prize website notes it has sold more copies than the last three Booker Prize winners combined before their wins. Lili Anolik ...

“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts over the course of 24 hours on a space station. The prize comes ...

She beat five other finalists from Canada, the U.S., Australia and the Netherlands, chosen from among 156 novels submitted by ...

Samantha Harvey, who has won the UK’s top fiction award, the Booker prize, for her novel Orbital, has created a new genre: nature writing about space. “I see it as a kind of space pastoral ...

"Orbital". It's the first book set in space to scoop the prize, and Harvey is the first female author to win the Booker since Bernardine Evaristo in 2019. "It's bold, it's scintillating" and ...

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song wins the 2023 Booker Prize – but the judges picked ... The Booker press release describes Orbital as “a book about a wounded world” and cites its win in ...

Years later, that decision has paid off. On Tuesday, “Orbital” won the Booker Prize, the prestigious literary award. Edmund de Waal, an artist and the chair of this year’s panel of judges ...

"Orbital" is enjoying some popular as well as critical success. The prize website notes it has sold more copies than the last three Booker Prize winners combined before their wins. Read more ...

For the first time in the Booker Prize's history, the shortlist included ... Samantha Harvey's Orbital follows a 24-hour period in the lives of six astronauts on the International Space Station.

TEN YEARS AGO, when eligibility for the Booker prize expanded from Commonwealth ... author on the shortlist, and she won for her 136-page gem, “Orbital” (only one other winning novel has ...