English Passengers
British novelist, born 1960. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2000.
English Passengers is a 2000 novel by Matthew Kneale. It won the Costa Novel Award in 2000.
On 2 of the 20 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Matthew Kneale
- First published
- 2000
- Length
- 480 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize shortlist, 2000
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2000
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Empire and colonialism, Adventure, Satire
Is English Passengers worth reading?
2 of the 20 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Costa Novel Award and the Booker Prize.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2000) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2000) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of English Passengers
The edition we link to is the Penguin paperback (2001), 480 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin (paperback, 2001)
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN
- 9780140285215
How critics, prizes and readers rate English Passengers
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 56% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like English Passengers
If you liked English Passengers, try Catch-22, Wolf Hall or Midnight's Children.
