The Booker Prize is awarded each year to the best work of sustained fiction in the English language. In other words, it doesn’t get any more prestigious than the Booker. And we are honored this week to have Samantha Harvey who wrote the 2024 Booker winner entitled “Orbital”. When you read her beautiful prose, you’ll know why she won. And when you liste ... Show More
Jul 2
Kevin Powers and the Art of Writing War
Kevin Powers’ Children of the Wild is a book about Roy and Ennis, two friends on a farm who sign up for WWI, one excited for battle, one a feral child baffled by war. What does war do to friendship? To the minds of men? We talk to Kevin, a veteran of the war in Iraq, about his ab ... Show More
38m 10s
Feb 2025
Book Club: Let's Talk About "Orbital," by Samantha Harvey
<p>Samantha Harvey’s novel “Orbital,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/arts/booker-prize-winner-orbital-samantha-harvey.html" target="_blank">which won the Booker Prize</a> last year, has a tight, poetic frame: We follow one day in the lives of six people working on a ... Show More
41m 51s
Jun 2025
Stephen Presents: Late Show Book Club | 'Orbital'
Late Show Book Club chats with Samantha Harvey, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel, "Orbital," our June book club pick. Find out which book Harvey would take into space with her, the significance of the International Space Station being deorbited in 2030, and her advice for ... Show More
11m 31s
Oct 2022
The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022
The live ceremony for the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction, hosted by Samira Ahmed. The winner of the £50,000 prize will be announced by the chair of judges Neil MacGregor in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen Consort, who will award the trophy. The author Elif Shafak reflects on ... Show More
42m 6s