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Most of the book was written during Covid-19 lockdowns. Harvey watched many hours of online footage from the International Space Station ...
Winning titles receive £50,000 (about $63,000). The winner of this year’s Booker Prize was “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey, a literary science fiction novel that tells the stories of six ...
‘I wrote it as a way of almost memorialising Earth as our home,’ Harvey says. Sometimes they look at the earth and could be tempted to roll back all they know to be true, and to believe ...
Her Booker Prize-winning novel follows six astronauts on board a space station, observing them as they observe their home planet. At 49, Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her fifth ...
The book, which won the 2024 International Booker prize, is set in the last years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (1949-90) as western capitalism erodes a collapsing socialism. Against this ...
On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through ...
When I think back on what I read this year - on what stuck, and stuck, refusing to unstick - the common denominator was my ...
Samantha Harvey will come to the festival with “Orbital,” which won the 2024 Booker Prize as the year’s best novel published in Great Britain. “Six astronauts observe Earth’s splendour ...
In 2024, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it comes to recommending fiction. From Samantha Harvey’s spellbinding Booker winner Orbital to Percival Everett’s ambitious retelling of ...