Marlon James' widely praised A Brief History of Seven Killings was sometimes hard to find on the shelf after winning the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Now that the 2016 Prize has been awarded, this is the perfect time to catch up on your reading from last year. Check it out today!
When Paul Beatty won this year's prize, he became the first US author to receive this honor. His book, The Sellout, was described by the head of the prize committee, Amanda Foreman, as "one of those very rare books: which is able to take satire, which is a very difficult subject and not always done well, and plunges it into the heart of contemporary American society with a savage wit of the kind I haven’t seen since Swift or Twain."
Also on the shortlist for this year's prize were:
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Labels: From the Collection, November 2016
