Wherever you plan to hang your hammock this summer (home or away) here's the 2021 Booker Prize Fiction longlist to make the job of picking a page turner a little easier. The thirteen books all competiting for the prize were announced on the 27th of July. Who will make it to the shortlist on the 14th of September?? It doesn't get more exciting than this. The winner for the well respected award will be announced on the 3rd of November.
Discover the ETG choice pick for Indie publisher non-fiction book of the year below:
Hike, Drive, Stayin' Alive!, The Raven Brothers (Samosir Books)
The 2021 Booker Prize longlist is:
A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta Books, Granta Publications)
Second Place, Rachel Cusk, (Faber)
The Promise, Damon Galgut, (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris (Tinder Press, Headline, Hachette Book Group)
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)
An Island, Karen Jennings (Holland House Books)
A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
The Fortune Men, Nadifa Mohamed (Viking, Penguin General, PRH)
Bewilderment, Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann, PRH)
China Room, Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker, Vintage, PRH)
Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, PRH)
Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford (Faber)
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