The Booker Prizes celebrates the world’s most outstanding fiction, whether written in or translated into English, and each month they shine a spotlight on a different book from the Booker Library.
This month they are celebrating Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger with an exclusive interview with the author, a reading guide, an extract and other content. Access the Booker Monthly Spotlight today.
We will be sharing the Booker Prizes Monthly Spotlight for you to enjoy each month.
Introducing the Booker Prizes October Monthly Spotlight: The Little Stranger by Sarah Walters
In 2009, Sarah Waters was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Little Stranger, a chilling and vividly rendered ghost story, set in post-war Britain.
Brimming with rich atmosphere and psychological complexity, The Little Stranger builds on Waters’ earlier explorations in the Gothic genre, adding a supernatural twist. Here, against the backdrop of the crumbling Hundreds Hall, Waters draws inspiration from the greats, including Henry James and Shirley Jackson, in a novel that thickens with dread with every page turn. Waters has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2019.
The Booker Prizes are offering a reading guide for The Little Stranger, an extract from the book, a beginner’s guide to Sarah Waters, as well as the opportunity to win a Sarah Walters bundle and a Booker Prize tote bag.
The Booker Prize 2024
The Booker Prizes have announced the shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize – the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction.
Featuring the largest number of shortlisted women in the Booker Prize’s 55 year history, these six stories will transport readers around the world and beyond the earth’s atmosphere: from the International Space Station to a cave network beneath the French countryside, and almost everywhere in between.
Find out all about the shortlist here.
Access reading guides for each of the shortlisted titles here
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