TO PITCH OUR EDITORIAL BOARD
The Bombay Review, ambitiously so, plans to review all the Booker Prize winners, since 1968 when the Prize was first constituted. We welcome review pitches from professional and freelance writers, journalists, columnists, and book lovers. All submissions must be exclusive, and previously unpublished. To review a book for us, please send us a pitch between 200 and 500 words.
In case a book is not available with you, we will send you a copy if you are selected to write the piece.
Send an email to thebombayreview@gmail.com. The subject line of the mail should be – ‘Book Review : Book Name : Your Name’.
We are starting the reviews section with The Booker Prize winners, but we would love to have pitches for other books as well.
Due to the volume of submissions, we can only respond to those of interest.
PLease make sure to include the following information at the top of your pitch:
*Book(s) and/or writer(s) you would like to discuss in your piece
*Approximate word count
*Your bio
*Two relevant writing samples, preferably of reviews.
*Availability of the book with you. (Please note that we will be sending you books only in select cases)
You are encouraged to briefly explain any critical, historical context you consider relevant apart from the reason you picked the particular book.
TO PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS (for books not in our list)
To have your book considered for review, send a pitch to thebombayreview@gmail.com; copies of books will be asked of you. This is a paid service. You can mail us for a quote.
ABOUT THE BOOKER PRIZE
The Booker Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade. From its inception, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014 it was widened to any English-language novel—a change that proved controversial.
A high-profile literary award in British culture, the Booker Prize is greeted with anticipation and fanfare. It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be selected for inclusion in the shortlist or even to be nominated for the “longlist”.
The Complete List of Man Booker Winners
2018
Milkman
by Anna Burns
United Kingdom / Northern Ireland
2017
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
United States
2016
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
United States
2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
Jamaica
2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
Australia
2013
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
Canada / New Zealand
2012
Bring Up The Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
United Kingdom
2011
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
United Kingdom
2010
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson
United Kingdom
2009
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
United Kingdom
2008
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
India
2007
The Gathering
by Anne Enright
Ireland
2006
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
India
2005
The Sea
by John Banville
Ireland
2004
The Line of Beauty
by Allan Hollinghurst
United Kingdom
2003
Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
Australia
2002
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Canada
2001
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
Australia
2000
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
Canada
1999
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
South Africa
1998
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
United Kingdom
1997
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
India
1996
Last Orders
by Graham Swift
United Kingdom
1995
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
United Kingdom
1994
How Late It Was, How Late
by James Kelman
United Kingdom
1993
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle
Ireland
1992
Sacred Hunger
by Barry Unsworth
United Kingdom
and*
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
Canada / Sri Lanka
1991
The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
Nigeria
1990
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
United Kingdom
1989
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
United Kingdom / Japan
1988
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
Australia
1987
Moon Tiger
by Penelope Lively
United Kingdom
1986
The Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis
United Kingdom
1985
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
New Zealand
1984
Hotel du Lac
by Anita Brookner
United Kingdom
1983
Life & Times of Michael K
by J. M. Coetzee
South Africa
1982
Schindler’s Ark
by Thomas Keneally
Australia
1981
Midnight’s Children
by Salman Rushdie
United Kingdom / India
1980
Rites of Passage
by William Golding
United Kingdom
1979
Offshore
by Penelope Fitzgerald
United Kingdom
1978
The Sea, The Sea
by Iris Murdoch
Ireland / United Kingdom
1977
Staying On
by Paul Scott
United Kingdom
1976
Saville
by David Storey
United Kingdom
1975
Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
United Kingdom / Germany
1974
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
South Africa
and*
Holiday
by Stanley Middleton
United Kingdom
1973
The Siege of Krishnapur
by J.G. Farrell
United Kingdom / Ireland
1972
G.
by John Berger
United Kingdom
1971
In a Free State (short story)**
by V. S. Naipaul
United Kingdom / Trinidad and Tobago
1970***
Troubles
by J. G. Farrell
United Kingdom / Ireland
1970
The Elected Member
by Bernice Rubens
United Kingdom
1969
Something to Answer For
by P. H. Newby
United Kingdom
Books will be made available to reviewers whose pitches are accepted.
