Six remarkable books have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. Interestingly, none of the six writers have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize before – and only one of the authors - Paul Murray - has been previously longlisted.
Can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? A tragicomic family saga, it deals with a family's struggle with financial crisis and how it impacts each family member.
Eleven-year-old Gopi's life takes a sea change after her mother's death. Her father enlists her in a quietly brutal squash training regimen, and soon the game takes over her life and she grows apart from her sisters. This is a moving debut novel centred around grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself.
This is an intense novel about a society on the brink as Ireland moves towards Totalitarianism and a mother faces a terrible choice - after her husband disappears, she has to fight to keep the family together.
This powerful novel tells the story of Apple Island, a place where castaways - running away from society and its judgment - have landed and built a home. The tale narrates the story of hopes, dreams and resilience of those who are considered unfit to live in a world, which is intolerant of difference.
A couple and their kids flee to Miami following political violence in their native Kingston. But soon they struggle as black immigrants as the story traces their lives amid financial disaster, racism, and flat-out bad luck.
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The author explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of an unreliable narrator.