Small Island
British novelist, 1956–2019. Won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2004, the Costa Novel Award in 2004 and the Walter Scott Prize in 2011.
Small Island is a 2004 novel by Andrea Levy. It won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2004 and the Costa Novel Award in 2004.
On 6 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Andrea Levy
- First published
- 2004
- Length
- 560 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Women's Prize for Fiction winner, 2004
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2004
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Migration and identity, Empire and colonialism, War and conflict
Is Small Island worth reading?
6 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2004) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 52 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 76 | See the list |
| The Big Jubilee Read (BBC Arts and The Reading Agency, 2022) | Listed | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2004) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of Small Island
The edition we link to is the Tinder Press paperback (2009), 560 pages.
- Publisher
- Tinder Press (paperback, 2009)
- Pages
- 560
- ISBN
- 9780755307500
How critics, prizes and readers rate Small Island
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 50% of the points available on prize lists, against 32% on critics' lists and 17% 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 Small Island
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