Her Booker Prize-winning novel follows six astronauts on board a space station, observing them as they observe their home ...

The Booker Prize — as defined by the foundation of the same name — is “the leading literary award in the English speaking ...

Samantha Harvey has won this year's coveted literary award with her novel, "Orbital". It's the first book set in space to ...

By Alex Marshall Reporting from London When Samantha Harvey started work on “Orbital,” a novel set aboard the International Space Station, she wrote 5,000 words then, suddenly, lost her nerve.

The ineffably beautiful book follows six astronauts on board a space station. ‘I wrote it as a way of almost memorialising Earth as our home,’ Harvey says.

Harvey beat five other finalists from Canada, the U.S., Australia and the Netherlands, chosen from among 156 novels submitted by publishers. Skip to main content Skip to main content Register for more ...

Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her science fiction novel Orbital. The novel follows six astronauts as they orbit the Earth for one day of their nine-month space mission.

“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts over the course of 24 hours on a space station. The prize comes ...

Samantha Harvey's Orbital follows a 24-hour period in the lives of six astronauts on the International Space Station. "By positioning the entire planet within a single narrative frame, Orbital ...