A Horse Walks Into a Bar The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction David Grossman (Man Booker International The Power winner) Naomi Alderman (winner) Set in a comedy club in a small Israeli town the In a dystopian parallel, women seasoned comic Dovaleh takes the stage. Instead across the globe find they have of his usual amusing routine, the audience is faced an extraordinary electric power with his breakdown. The room is enthralled by the radiating from their fingertips, a glimpse of darkness behind his usually charming force which can do immense demeanour. Among the audience sits a childhood damage. So what happens in a world where friend, who was told to come by Dovaleh. women are suddenly physically dominant to The Museum of Modern Love men? Where does the power shift? Heather Rose (Stella Prize winner) Stay With Me st Recently divorced and alone in Manhattan, Arky Ayobami Adebayo (short-list) makes his way to MOMA where, in the atrium, Yejide and Akin fell in love at university. While it artist Maria Abromovic is sitting for her piece The was expected that Akin would take many wives, Artist is Present. Drawn to the 75-day long the two committed to a monogamous marriage. performance Arky returns again and again, 1 Four years later, when Yejide has meeting other observers and beginning to regain still not become pregnant, she is perspective on his own life. furious when she is introduced to Akin’s new, second wife. Knowing 2017 the only way to save her marriage is to fall pregnant, she manages to do so, but at a huge cost. Literary
Awards Kazuo Ishiguro (Nobel Prize for Fiction winner) The 2017 Nobel Prize for fiction was awarded to Winners and finalists from the Pulitzer Prize for Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional Fiction, the Man Booker and Man Booker force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our Mitcham Library International Prizes for Fiction, the Miles illusory sense of connection with the world". His 8372 8244 Franklin Literary Award, the Baileys Women’s works include Never Let Me Go, The Remains of Blackwood Library the Day and The Buried Giant. Prize for Fiction and the Stella Prize. 8372 8255
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Man Booker Prize for Fiction The Miles Franklin Literary Award The Underground Railroad Lincoln in the Bardo Extinctions Colson Whitehead (winner) George Saunders (winner) Josephine Wilson (winner) In Whitehead’s world the Underground Railway In this experimental first novel, Abraham Lincoln Professor Frederick Lothian is a retired engineer, is more than a series of safe houses and secret visits the body of his 11 year-old son at the dawn a concrete expert and a collector of modernist passages, it’s an operational network of tunnels of the civil war. In his state of grief he is observed design. Aged 69, after the death of his wife and and train tracks used by slaves to escape. The by other souls lost in the war who talk together the loss of any relationship with his children, he story follows Cora, a young woman from a while they are all stuck in the Bardo, a Budhist quarantines himself to a retirement home. Here plantation in the south east who is convinced to state of existence between one life and the next. he meets neighbour Jan and is given the flee by Caesar, a new arrival at the farm. opportunity to rebuild something meaningful. Exit West
Mohsin Hamid (short-list)
In a country on the brink of civil war, Nadia and
Saeed meet. Saeed is quiet and gentle while
Nadia is fiercely independent, but they are drawn
close in the midst of the unrest. As things
escalate they decide that they have no choice but
to leave.
Imagine Me Gone An Isolated Incident
Adam Haslett (finalist) Emily Maguire (short-list)
In London in the 1960s, John is hospitalised for The murder of a young woman in a small town depression. His young fiancée, faced with the makes big news. As the media flocks and the decision to leave or stay, decides to stand by him. community rallies the victim’s sister, a young
Imagine Me Gone is the story of the family they barmaid, is pushed into the midst of it all. But as have together, filled with love but riddled with she searches for answers to this inexplicable the complexities of mental illness. tragedy she loses trust in those around her. Autumn The Sport of Kings Ali Smith (short-list) The Last Days of Ava Langdon C E Morgan (finalist) The first of a four part series, Autumn was Mark O’Flynn (short-list) Following his father’s death, Henry converts the written in the pivotal moments following the Based on the eccentric and reclus writer from family corn farm into a horse station, breeding Brexit vote. The story centres on the unlikely the Blue Mountains, Eve Langley, this is a racehorses. When his daughter becomes a friendship between the young Elisabeth and colourful reimagining of the end of her life. Filled partner in the business and employs a young Daniel, an intriguing old man who she lived next with passion, Ava strides out into the world, with African American stable-hand, the ugly history of to as a child. It is an exploration of the a machete in one hand and a manuscript in the slavery in the American South rears its head. perspective of time in a changing world. other, she is determined to be published.