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Harvey’s win comes in the immediate wake of the terrible floods in Spain. The Booker press release describes Orbital as “a book about a wounded world” and cites its win in “a year of ...

This year’s Booker Prize winner, Orbital by Samantha Harvey, which dramatises a day onboard the International Space Station (ISS), 250 miles above Earth, falls decidedly in the latter tradition. “The ...

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On November 12th the Booker came home. Samantha Harvey was the only British author on the shortlist, and she won for her 136-page gem, “Orbital” (only one other winning novel has been shorter: ...

Samantha Harvey is the first woman to win the award since 2019 British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize award with her novel Orbital, the first book set in space to win the prize.

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Dezeen Showroom: onion bulbs and conchigliette pasta are among the organic shapes that informed this collection of ceramic pendant light clusters by Indian manufacturer Naaya Studio. The Cluster ...