{"id":11674,"date":"2026-03-03T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/?p=11674"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:13:15","slug":"booker-giller-prize-winning-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker &amp; Giller prize winning books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out these Giller and Booker award winning books recently added to our collection:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11677\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/gillerprize_logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/GillerPrize_logo.png?fit=539%2C232&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"539,232\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GillerPrize_logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/GillerPrize_logo.png?fit=539%2C232&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11677 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/GillerPrize_logo.png?resize=539%2C232\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/GillerPrize_logo.png?w=539&amp;ssl=1 539w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/GillerPrize_logo.png?resize=300%2C129&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/GillerPrize_logo.png?resize=100%2C43&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/gillerprize.ca\/\"> Giller Prize<\/a> (formerly the Scotiabank Giller Prize) is\u00a0 one of Canada&#8217;s most prestigious literary awards, celebrating the best in Canadian Fiction &#8211; novels, short stories, and graphic novels. \u00a0Founded in 1994 by Jack Rabinovitch to honor his late wife, Doris Giller, it awards $100,000 to the winner and $10,000 to each finalist, promoting literary excellence.<\/p>\n<p><em>2024 Giller Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11685\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-2.gif?fit=121%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"121,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-2.gif?fit=121%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11685 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-2.gif?resize=133%2C206\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"206\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=5e87b823-5d02-30d8-b42a-8e934f69489c\">Held<\/a> \/ Anne Michaels.\u00a0 <\/strong>1917, On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls&#8211;a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts with messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations of connections and consequences that ignite and re-ignite as the century unfolds.<\/p>\n<p><em>2023 Giller Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11689\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-3.gif?fit=121%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"121,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (3)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-3.gif?fit=121%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11689 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-3.gif?resize=121%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=1d80eba2-90e8-3c3f-b15f-8c2dfd049883\">Study for obedience<\/a> \/Sarah Bernstein.\u00a0 <\/strong>A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs \u2013 collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog\u2019s phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat that lies \u2018just beyond the garden gate.\u2019 And as she feels the hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother\u2019s property, she fears that, should the rumblings in the town gather themselves into a more defined shape, who knows what might happen, what one might be capable of doing. With a sharp, lyrical voice, Sarah Bernstein powerfully explores questions of complicity and power, displacement and inheritance. &#8216;Study for Obedience&#8217; is a finely tuned, unsettling novel that confirms Bernstein as one of the most exciting voices of her generation.<\/p>\n<p><em>2021 Giller Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11691\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-4.gif?fit=121%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"121,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (4)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-4.gif?fit=121%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11691 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-4.gif?resize=121%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=c9fd588f-0b5a-3dcc-bca4-a3a431a383bf\">What strange paradise<\/a> \/ Omar El Akkad. <\/strong>More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of V\u00e4nna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though she and the boy are complete strangers, though they don&#8217;t speak a common language, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of the boy&#8217;s life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair&#8211;and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one.<\/p>\n<p><em>2020 Giller Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11688\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/61cryq0v2yl-_sy342_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/61cRyq0v2yL._SY342_.jpg?fit=213%2C342&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"213,342\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"61cRyq0v2yL._SY342_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/61cRyq0v2yL._SY342_.jpg?fit=213%2C342&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11688 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/61cRyq0v2yL._SY342_.jpg?resize=133%2C214\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/61cRyq0v2yL._SY342_.jpg?w=213&amp;ssl=1 213w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/61cRyq0v2yL._SY342_.jpg?resize=125%2C200&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/61cRyq0v2yL._SY342_.jpg?resize=100%2C161&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=d591c9de-198f-3937-8ae7-a097175eb93c\">Mercy among the children<\/a> \/ David Adams Richards.\u00a0 <\/strong>As a boy, Sydney Henderson thinks he has killed Connie Devlin when he pushes him from a roof for stealing his sandwich. He vows to God he will never again harm another if Connie survives. Connie walks away, laughing, and Sydney embarks upon a life of self-immolating goodness. In spite of having educated himself with such classics as Tolstoy and Marcus Aurelius, he is not taken seriously enough to enter university because of his background of dire poverty and abuse, which leads everyone to expect the worst of him. His saintly generosity of spirit is treated with suspicion and contempt, especially when he manages to win the love of beautiful Elly. Unwilling to harm another in thought or deed, or to defend himself against false accusations, he is exploited and tormented by others in this rural community, and finally implicated in the death of a 19-year-old boy.<br \/>\nLyle Henderson knows his father is innocent, but is angry that the family has been ridiculed for years, and that his mother and sister suffer for it. He feels betrayed by his father\u2019s passivity in the face of one blow after another, and unable to accept his belief in long-term salvation. Unlike his father, he cannot believe that evil will be punished in the end. While his father turns the other cheek, Lyle decides the right way is in fighting, and embarks on a morally empty life of stealing, drinking and violence.\u00a0 \u00a0A compassionate, powerful story of humanity confronting inhumanity, it is a culmination of Richards\u2019 last seven books, beginning with <span class=\"a-text-italic\">Road to the Stilt House<\/span>\u2014all taking place in\u00a0New Brunswick\u2019s Miramichi Valley.<\/p>\n<p><em>2017 Giller Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11684\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/81tjxukcu4l-_sy342_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/81TJXukCu4L._SY342_.jpg?fit=227%2C342&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"227,342\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"81TJXukCu4L._SY342_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/81TJXukCu4L._SY342_.jpg?fit=227%2C342&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11684 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/81TJXukCu4L._SY342_-133x200.jpg?resize=133%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/81TJXukCu4L._SY342_.jpg?resize=133%2C200&amp;ssl=1 133w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/81TJXukCu4L._SY342_.jpg?resize=100%2C151&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/81TJXukCu4L._SY342_.jpg?w=227&amp;ssl=1 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=687f0d4b-09e3-3ee3-8258-2878baa2c8a8\">Bellevue square<\/a> \/ Michael Redhill.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She&#8217;s never seen her, but others swear they have. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she&#8217;s looking for something to put in it. Jean&#8217;s a grown woman with a husband and two kids, as well as a thriving bookstore in downtown Toronto, and she doesn&#8217;t rattle easily\u2014not like she used to. But after two customers insist they&#8217;ve seen her double, Jean decides to investigate.\u00a0 She begins at the crossroads of Kensington Market: a city park called Bellevue Square. Although she sees no one who looks like her, it only takes a few visits to the park for her to become obsessed with the possibility of encountering her twin in the flesh. With the aid of a small army of locals who hang around in the park, she expands her surveillance, making it known she&#8217;ll pay for information or sightings. A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers and vagrants\u2014the regulars of Bellevue Square\u2014are eager to contribute to Jean&#8217;s investigation. But when some of them start disappearing, she fears her alleged double has a sinister agenda. Unless Jean stops her, she and everyone she cares about will face a fate much stranger than death.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11676\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/booker-prize\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/booker-prize.jpg?fit=148%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"148,148\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"booker prize\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/booker-prize.jpg?fit=148%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11676\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/booker-prize.jpg?resize=258%2C258\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/booker-prize.jpg?w=148&amp;ssl=1 148w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/booker-prize.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"H23r4e\" href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/booker-prize\/about-the-booker-prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Booker Prize<\/a> is the world&#8217;s leading literarcy award for a single work fo fiction, awarded anually to the best sustained novel written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. \u00a0Renowned for transforming careers, the winner receives \u00a350,000 and significant international recognition, with \u00a32,500 awarded to each of the six shortlisted authors.<\/p>\n<p><em>2025 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11694\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/author_david_szalay_-_flesh_a_novel\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/Author_David_Szalay_-_flesh_a_novel.jpg?fit=183%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"183,276\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Author_David_Szalay_-_flesh_a_novel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/Author_David_Szalay_-_flesh_a_novel.jpg?fit=183%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11694 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/Author_David_Szalay_-_flesh_a_novel-133x200.jpg?resize=133%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/Author_David_Szalay_-_flesh_a_novel.jpg?resize=133%2C200&amp;ssl=1 133w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/Author_David_Szalay_-_flesh_a_novel.jpg?resize=100%2C151&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/Author_David_Szalay_-_flesh_a_novel.jpg?w=183&amp;ssl=1 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=6d072270-6775-3cf1-85bb-7c29f2d5ed23\"> Flesh<\/a> \/David Szalay.\u00a0 <\/strong>A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unraveled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbor&#8211;a married woman close to his mother&#8217;s age&#8211;as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control. As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century&#8217;s tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London&#8217;s super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.<\/p>\n<p><em>2024 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11697\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-9.gif?fit=130%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"130,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (9)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-9.gif?fit=130%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11697 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-9.gif?resize=130%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=ef372b82-e205-37ba-bd3f-65c1099aad74\">Orbital: A novel<\/a> \/Samantha Harvey.\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0<em>Orbital<\/em>\u00a0deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space&#8211; not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts&#8211; from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan&#8211; have left their lives behind to travel at warp speed as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate. So are the marks of civilization far below, encrusted on the planet on which we live.<\/p>\n<p><em>2023 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11699\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-10-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-10.gif?fit=125%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"125,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (10)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-10.gif?fit=125%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11699 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-10.gif?resize=125%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=7fe3de33-1325-33e1-9e4e-52225d0276ae\">Prophet song<\/a> \/Paul Lynch.\u00a0 <\/strong>On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland&#8217;s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what&#8211;or who&#8211;is she willing to leave behind? Prophet Song presents a shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother&#8217;s fight to hold her family together.<\/p>\n<p><em>2022 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11701\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-1.gif?fit=125%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"125,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-1.gif?fit=125%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11701 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-1.gif?resize=125%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=5249a385-9cc7-3365-9b51-dfcdbc56605b\">Seven moons of Maali Almeida<\/a> \/Shehan Karunatilaka. <\/strong>A searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida&#8211;war photographer, gambler, and closet queen&#8211;has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><em>2021 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11698\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-10\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader.gif?fit=119%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"119,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader.gif?fit=119%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-11698 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader.gif?resize=133%2C209\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"209\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=5180db20-e164-3e53-8c41-557521a056f7\">The Promise: A novel<\/a> \/ Damon Galgut .\u00a0 <\/strong>On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the family&#8217;s Black maid. This promise will divide the family&#8211;especially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by feelings of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over thirty years, the dwindling Swart family remains haunted by the unmet promise, just as their country is haunted by its own failures. The Promise is an epic South African drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of history, sure to leave its readers transformed. Simply: you must read it. &#8211;Claire Messud, Harper&#8217;s Magazine This tour-de-force unleashes a searing portrait of a damaged family and a troubled country in need of healing.<\/p>\n<p><em>2020 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11702\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-12\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-12.gif?fit=125%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"125,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (12)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-12.gif?fit=125%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11702 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-12.gif?resize=125%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=59ffa389-7da5-3308-9d47-0519c190fa8f\">Shuggie Bain: A novel<\/a> \/Douglas Stuart. <\/strong>Bain spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher&#8217;s war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city&#8217;s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. His mother Agnes is Shuggie&#8217;s guiding light but a burden for his siblings. Dreaming of a house with its own front door and ordering happiness on credit as her husband philanders, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good but finds solace in drink. As she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety, Agnes&#8217;s addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her&#8211; especially her beloved Shuggie.<\/p>\n<p><em>2018 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11696\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-8.gif?fit=125%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"125,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (8)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-8.gif?fit=125%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11696 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-8.gif?resize=125%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=d6740257-536f-3956-92b1-c97c12ee68b4\">Milkman: A novel<\/a>\u00a0\/Anna Burns.\u00a0 <\/strong>In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes \u201cinteresting,\u201d the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister\u2019s attempts to avoid him\u2015and to keep her mother from finding out about her maybe-boyfriend\u2015rumors spread and the threat of violence lingers.\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Milkman<\/span> is a story of the way inaction can have enormous repercussions, in a time when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or even a sunset can be subversive. Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor.<\/p>\n<p><em>2017 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11695\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-7.gif?fit=125%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"125,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (7)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-7.gif?fit=125%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11695 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-7.gif?resize=125%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=31006d68-ef39-3afa-8e5b-03e2f8b9286e\">Lincoln in the bardo<\/a> \/ George Saunders.\u00a0 <\/strong>February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln&#8217;s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. &#8220;My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,&#8221; the president says at the time. &#8220;God has called him home.&#8221; Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy&#8217;s body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins a story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state &#8212; called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo &#8212; a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie&#8217;s soul. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction&#8217;s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end.<\/p>\n<p><em>2016 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11700\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-11.gif?fit=121%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"121,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (11)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-11.gif?fit=121%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11700 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-11.gif?resize=121%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=ba8b9aec-c497-3b0a-99b4-df858132c56d\">The sellout: A Novel<\/a> \/ Paul Beatty.\u00a0 <\/strong>Born in the &#8220;agrarian ghetto&#8221; of Dickens, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Raised by a single father, a sociologist, he is told that his father&#8217;s work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed, he realizes there never was a memoir. Fueled by this deceit, the narrator initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery, which lands him in front of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><em>2015 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11692\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-5.gif?fit=123%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"123,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (5)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-5.gif?fit=123%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-5.gif?resize=123%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=bae6f0d0-fd05-3c76-94f7-69cb58f6dbc2\">Brief history of seven killings<\/a> \/ Marlon James.<\/strong>\u00a0 On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years. Spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters &#8212; assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts &#8212; A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 70s, to the crack wars in 80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 90s.<\/p>\n<p><em>2014 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11703\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-13\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-13.gif?fit=121%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"121,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (13)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-13.gif?fit=121%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11703 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-13.gif?resize=121%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"187\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=5c57e487-20df-3d15-8e38-96cdcee130ce\">The narrow road to the deep north<\/a> \/ Richard Flanagan.\u00a0 <\/strong>Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.<\/p>\n<p><em>1986 Booker Prize Winner<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11704\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/library\/2026\/03\/03\/booker-giller-prize-winning-books\/imageloader-14\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-14.gif?fit=117%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"117,187\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imageloader (14)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-14.gif?fit=117%2C187&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11704 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/create.twu.ca\/library\/files\/2026\/02\/imageloader-14.gif?resize=117%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"187\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/linkprocessor\/plink?id=670f630a-9457-3d87-8cd4-1bd0a0403fa2\">The old devils<\/a> \/ Kingsley Amis; introduction by John Banville.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Old Devils<\/em>, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years\u2014when \u201call of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast\u201d\u2014nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters, and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon. Long-dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened, as life at the Bible and Crown, the local pub, is changed irrevocably. 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