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.
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
$27.99 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Reading Level: good
It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but ...Show more
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$39.99 NZD
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Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Reading Level: Very Good
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous f ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$24.99 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington PostFrom the author of the acclaimed Gould's Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.August, 1943: Australian surge ...Show more
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
$28.99 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Reading Level: near fine
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cele ...Show more
The Sea by John Banville
$27.95 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr an ...Show more
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
$23.00 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Reading Level: good
WINNER THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by his single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believ ...Show more
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre. This intense novel follows Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, as he c ...Show more
The Siege of Krishnapur by James Gordon Farrell
$46.00 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Series: New York Review Books Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Winner of the Booker Prize. India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years ...Show more
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
$38.00 NZD
Category: Golden Man Booker Prize | Reading Level: very good
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The ...Show more