Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set aboard a space station. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London When Samantha ...

The novel "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize. That's the U.K.'s most prestigious literary award. The book is about a single day in the life of six astronauts on board a space ...

British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility ...

Samantha Harvey’s novel “Orbital,” which won the Booker Prize last year, has a tight, poetic frame: We follow one day in the lives of six people working on a space station above Earth, orbiting the ...

Samantha Harvey, the 2024 winner of the Booker Prize, is a former museum worker turned author. Before snapping up the £50,000 literary prize on Tuesday for her novel Orbital, she said that she would ...