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The 2024 Booker Prize

The 2024 Booker Prize has been awarded to Samantha Harvey for her novel, ORBITAL, which takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. Compact yet beautifully expansive, the book invites us to observe Earth’s splendor, while reflecting on the individual and collective value of every human life. Click here to read more about Samantha Harvey, the first woman to win the prize since 2019, and ORBITAL, the second-shortest book to win the prize.

Week of March 3, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of March 3rd include DARLING GIRLS by Sally Hepworth, a thrilling page-turner of sisterhood, secrets, love and murder; THE FURY, a masterfully paced thriller from Alex Michaelides about a reclusive ex-movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a homicide; Helen Simonson's THE HAZELBOURNE LADIES MOTORCYCLE AND FLYING CLUB, a timeless comedy of manners about a generation of young women facing the seismic changes brought on by war and dreaming of the boundless possibilities of their future; 3 SHADES OF BLUE by James Kaplan, the story of three towering artists --- Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans --- and how they came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time; and Cory Leadbeater's THE UPTOWN LOCAL, a brilliant debut memoir about a young writer --- struggling with depression, family issues and addiction --- and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion.