Winners of the Booker Prize
Booker Prize Winners Public
Created by Phil in SF
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Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby
It was 1956, and he was in Port Said. About these two facts, Townrow was reasonably certain, but a murderous …
Phil in SF says: 1969 winner
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Troubles by J.G. Farrell (Empire Trilogy, #1)
1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is …
Phil in SF says: Lost Booker winner (awarded in 2010)
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The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
It often occurs in the families of the insane that a certain member of the family is unconsciously chosen by …
Phil in SF says: 1970 winner
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In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
This may be V.S. Naipaul's best book. It is certainly his most original and complete. It is a sequence, part …
Phil in SF says: 1971 winner
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G. is preeminently, monumentally, the sexual man: an embodiment, perhaps, of the life-force itself. In him, the claims of sexuality …
Phil in SF says: 1972 winner
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The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell (Empire Trilogy, #2)
In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur was a remote …
Phil in SF says: 1973 winner
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The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
A wealthy industrialist, attractive to women and not yet fifty, Mehring once for nothing that white privilege in a black …
Phil in SF says: 1974 joint winner
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Edwin Fisher's holiday is a week in a boarding house in an East coast resort. Why has this successful University …
Phil in SF says: 1974 joint winner
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Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's new novel is on two planes in time, brilliantly interlocked in the form of a diary of …
Phil in SF says: 1975 winner
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Saxton, a mining village in South Yorkshire, is the setting for David Storey's new novel, his most complex and ambitious …
Phil in SF says: 1976 winner
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Staying On by Paul Scott (The Raj Quartet, #5)
In 1972, Colonel 'Tusker' Smalley (Indian Army, Retd.), and his wife Lucy ('Little Me'), are still living in Pankot, one …
Phil in SF says: 1977 winner
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The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
This is the story of an obsession. It also concerns the use and the surrender of magical power. Charles Arrowby, …
Phil in SF says: 1978 winner
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Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald is best known for her family biography THE KNOX BROTHERS, which had the rare distinction of winning unanimous …
Phil in SF says: 1979 winner
