Refresh Your Mind in our Spring Sale
Refresh Your Mind in our Spring Sale
10% off Each Booker International or Jhalak Prize Nominee
20% off when you buy 3 or More!
Like any other medium, awards season sweeps the book world too - exposing readers to new, challenging works outside the realms of our ordinary habits. This year, to celebrate the wealth of diverse and independent nominees included on the Jhalak and Booker International Longlists, we’re running a joint sale! With so many incredible books on these lists, we thought we’d help make your decisions a little easier, and are offering a special 20% discount off three or more purchases from these lists, so fill your boots!
Jhalak Prize
October Books has been a supporter of the Jhalak prize since its inception. Sharing our passion for cultural and social diversity, the prize is unique in that it accepts entries published in the UK by writers of colour. These include (and not limited to) fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels, poetry and all other genres, broadening the scope of what is considered ‘literary’.
The Booker International
We all know the Booker Prize as one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world. However, in the last decade or so, we feel that the quality and diversity of work represented by the Booker International Prize has far exceeded the UK based equivalent. Inviting submissions from any language or nationality, an added benefit is that most of these books have also been published independently, something October Books passionately supports.
Booker International Nominees
Boulder - Eva Balastar
Whale - Cheon Myeong-kwan
The Gospel According to the New World - Maryse Condé
Standing Heavy - GanZ
Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov
Is Mother Dead - Vigdis Hjorth
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv - Andrey Kurkov
The Birthday Party - Laurent Mauvinger
While We’re Dreaming - Clemens Meyer
Pyre - Perumal Murugan
Still Born - Gaudalupe Nettel
A System So Magnificent it is Blinding - Amanda Svensson
Ninth Building - Jingzhi Zou
Jhalak Prize Nominees
None of the Above - Travis Alabanza
Birdgirl - Mya-Rose Craig
Takeaway - Angela Hui
The Attic Child - Lola Jaye
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho - Paterson Joseph
When We Were Birds - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Here Again Now -OkechukwuNzelu
Losing the Plot - Derek Owusu
I’m a Fan - Sheena Patel
Hiding to Nothing - Anita Pati
Another Way to Split Water - Alycia Pirmohamed
The Room Between Us - Denise Saul
