This week, Hazel reviews The Promise by Damon Galgut. Find out more about our What we are reading series here. "My book group's just read the 2021 Booker Prize winner, Damon Galgut's The Promise. I thought it was brilliant. I don't know his work at all but his evocation of pre- and post-apartheid South Africa through …
Tag: Booker Prize
Case study: researching the Booker Prize
Over the past year, our most frequent researcher in the Special Collections reading room has been Fraser Smith, an MA Publishing student, who has been using the Booker Prize Archive for his dissertation research. He has kindly agreed to share his research and experience using the collection with us. Fraser writes: The Booker Archive: Assessing …
What are the “best” books and who decides?
As the library is exploring the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World we thought it would be interesting to see how that list compares with our literary special collections. Would the BBC judges have similar taste to the Booker Prize judging panels or the LOGOS journal board who decided on the titles in our …
The 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction
On the evening of 14 October, the Vice Chancellor and I attended the awards ceremony at Guildhall in the City of London. We are invited because the archive of the Booker Prize is held at Brookes in the Library’s Special Collections and Archives. It is always a very enjoyable event and this year was no …
OXFORD BROOKES LIBRARY NEWS 