Golden Man Booker Prize
The Golden Man Book Prize is a special one-off award to celebrate the 50th anniversary in 2018. It crowns the best work of fiction from the past five decades of the prize, as chosen by five judges and then voted for by the public.
Shop the nominees below.
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
$26.95 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize
Summary: "This account of Oskar's astonishing history is based in the first place on interviews with fifty Schindler survivors from seven nations - Australia, Israel, West Germany, Austria, The United States, Argentina and Brazil. To use the texture and devices of a novel to tell a story is a course whi ...Show more
Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby
$21.14 NZD
$23.00 (8% off)
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize
To celebrate 50 years of the Man Booker Prize, the inaugural winner now returns to print"Newby deserved, and deserves, more attention."—The Paris ReviewIt is 1956 and Townrow is in Port Said - of these two facts he's reasonably certain. He has been summoned by the widow of his deceased friend, ...Show more
Staying On by Paul Scott
$27.00 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyran ...Show more
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
$49.95 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Reading Level: very good
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The Bone People by Keri Hulme
$12.00 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good
Booker McConnell Prize winnner 1985.
The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
$27.99 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize
Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple of his parents' eyes...until at forty-one he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia. For Norman, his committal to a me ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$28.99 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The English Patient, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listA small cargo plane will come down to land, slipping from the level of the horizon. It tips its wings within desert light and then sound stops, it drifts to earth.The final curtain i ...Show more
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
$19.99 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize
Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is his story. Pre-read / used. Fair condition. some damage (page torn from very front on book), browned edgin ...Show more
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. 'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one'. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and televisio ...Show more
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
$33.83 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize
In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai.