An Evening with the Booker Prize shortlisted authors - Manchester Deansgate

Waterstones Deansgate are delighted to announce an exciting evening to celebrate the Booker Prize 2024 shortlist. Join the shortlisted authors on Saturday 9 November at 6pm for what promises to be an unmissable event. They will be discussing their shortlisted books, followed by an audience Q+A and a signing.

The shortlist for 2024 is a brilliantly eclectic selection of novels which features the blackly-comic tale of a spy-for-hire infiltrating a group of eco-terrorists, a poetic exploration of war and inter-generational trauma, a devastating and hilarious retelling of a 19th Century classic, an existential day-in-the-life of a group of astronauts living on a space station, the haunting and heated story of two women forced together in an old family home in 1960s Netherlands, and an exploration of grief, loss and forgiveness set in a small religious community in the Australian outback. The six titles are:
James by Percival Everett
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Held by Anne Michaels
The Safekeep by Yael van de Wouden
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

Copies of all the shortlisted titles will be available for purchase at the event.
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