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

Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set aboard a space station.

Samantha Harvey won the prestigious award for a wonder-filled novel, set aboard the International Space Station, that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth.

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.

Britain's Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel 'Orbital', a story about a single day aboard the International Space Station which she wrote during COVID-19 lockdowns.

British author Samantha Harvey has claimed the 2024 Booker Prize with her book Orbital which is the first book set in space to win the prize. The book is written through the eyes of six astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

The 2024 prize winner talks about setting her novel aboard the orbiting ISS to observe the beauty of our planet — and warn of its fragility

A lifelong fascination with outer space inspired British author Samantha Harvey to write her novel "Orbital", which this week won the prestigious Booker Prize.The 49-year-old author admitted that she had no specialist knowledge but was instead inspired by the live video feed from the International Space Station.