Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Independent Bookshop Edition)

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Winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital is a beautiful and ambitious novel told over the course of 24 hours following six astronauts aboard the International Space Station. It’s a profound study of intimate human fears – life on our planet as you’ve never seen it before. Stock with the booker prize printing will be expected from 28th November. The independent bookshop edition has additional exclusive content.

Published 27 Jun 2024
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About the Book…

Life on our planet as you’ve never seen it before.

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.

Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.

The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part – or protective – of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?

About the Author…

Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels The Wilderness, All is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping. Her work has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women’s Prize, the GuardianFirst Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. The Wilderness was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
Binding

Paperback

Author

Samantha Harvey

ISBN

9781529922936

Page Count

144

Published

27 Jun 2024

Publisher

Vintage

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