OrbitalSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours "Ravishingly beautiful." Joshua Ferris, New York Times A

but also in its humanity

” while the New York Times found the book “grating and troublesome … it’s difficult to imagine a more passive specimen

Rufus is very much a kindred spirit with Van Sciver’s Fante Bukowski series

Robert Frank’s The Americans has become one of the most influential and enduring works of American photography

Slight bend at top right corner

There were discussions about her own childhood—misunderstandings and lack of communication with her mother and father

the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre

Nesi’s formidable debut novel cycles backward in time

and true crime

the Policeman Said (1974)

And the present blazes in scenes of the young woman’s current fast-food trial: the awful boss

In the half-basement of this weird medical center (with strong echoes of Lars von Trier’s 1990s TV series The Kingdom)