Reviewed: All the books on the 2022 The Booker Prize shortlist

  • 13 Oct, 2022

2022 Booker Prize nominee ‘The Trees’ is a haunting story of a past that refuses to be left behind

Percival Everett’s novel about racial injustice is inspired by the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

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Booker Prize nominee ‘Small Things Like These’ celebrates ‘small’ triumphs of everyday life

Claire Keegan writes of how we take accountability of our lives’ trajectories, where we choose to go, and what we make of ourselves.

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Booker Prize shortlisted ‘Treacle Walker’ is a fantasy in form but a literary novel every other way

Alan Garner packs within hundred and fifty odd pages enough to put multi-part fantasy franchises to shame.

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Booker Prize 2022 nominee ‘Oh William!’ wonders what remains of a marriage after it has ended

This is Elizabeth Strout’s third novel featuring Lucy Barton. Lucy is now in her 60s – divorced, widowed, and still coming to terms with her unhappy childhood.

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Why NoViolet Bulawayo’s new Booker Prize-longlisted novel is an instant Zimbabwean classic

‘Glory’ out-Orwells ‘Animal Farm’, which it reminds readers of.

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This novel throws new light on the world of the living by showing us how a dead man might see it

Shehan Karunatilaka’s ‘Chats With The Dead’ is peopled with ghosts investigating political killings in Sri Lanka.

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Watch: 2022 Booker Prize shortlisted authors answer readers’ questions about their nominated books

The winner will be declared on October 17.

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Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: A reader’s introduction to the six novels

The nominations are split equally between men and women authors. At 87, Alan Garner is the oldest author ever to be shortlisted.

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Booker Prize longlist 2022: Here are the opening lines of the 13 novels

The shortlist of six will be announced on September 6, 2022.

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