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Booker Prize for Fiction

Literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom.

Winner

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Call Number: Fiction B8725h (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780394542157

Publication Date: 1985-01-12

Edith Hope, a successful mature novelist, has made a fool of herself over love and is sent by her friends to a Swiss hotel to come to her senses. Instead of writing a new romance novel, she finds herself preoccupied with her fellow guests.

Shortlist

Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
Call Number: Fiction B1887e (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780671530518

Publication Date: 1984-10-25

Jim, an eleven-year-old British schoolboy, lives in Shanghai in 1941. He relates his experiences which include three years spent in Lunghus, a Japanese prison camp, before being reunited with his parents and returning to England.

Longlist

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