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The Booker Prize is the most prominent award for literary fiction written in English, awarded annually since 1969. Since 2014 it has been open to any novel published in the UK or Ireland, whatever the author’s nationality; before that it was confined to the Commonwealth and Ireland. Its winners run from Iris Murdoch and William Golding to Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Hilary Mantel, who took the prize twice for consecutive volumes of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. This list collects the winning novels by year.
Five centuries of England, told through the people who shaped it. This list runs from the turn of the last millennium, where Ken Follett's The Evening and the Morning builds Kingsbridge out of a lawless, Viking-haunted Anglo-Saxon world, through the plague years and soaring ambition of the 14th century in World Without End, and on to Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy and the sharp, dangerous heart of Henry VIII's court, seen through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell. Cathedrals and coronations, the Black Death and betrayal, ordinary lives caught up in the making of a nation. Epic historical fiction for readers who like their past vivid, human, and hard to put down.
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