"Orbital," by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.

Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of space flight set against the urgency of the climate crisis.

Samantha Harvey’s novel 'Orbital' has won the Booker Prize. In a recent interview, she revealed that the book is more about Earth than space, despite its setting on the International Space Station.