Booker Prize 2020 Longlist 4 Books Collection Set - Zhang, Ward, Mantel, Stuart - Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
Love and Other Thought Experiments
The Mirror and the Light
Shuggie Bain

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Virago, Corsair, Fourth Estate, Picador

Overview
This four-book collection gathers standout literary fiction from the 2020 Booker Prize longlist, pairing four distinct voices under one cover. C Pam Zhang's How Much of These Hills Is Gold reimagines the American West through Chinese American siblings, while Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments fuses philosophy and love with formal daring. Hilary Mantel closes her Cromwell trilogy in The Mirror and the Light, and Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize-winning Shuggie Bain delivers a portrait of 1980s Glasgow. Together they offer a sweeping, prize-recognized sampler of contemporary literary fiction.

About the Books
Spanning frontier myth, philosophical romance, Tudor politics, and working-class Glasgow, this set channels the sheer range that made the 2020 Booker Prize longlist so celebrated in its year. How Much of These Hills Is Gold follows two orphaned siblings hauling their father's body across a mythic, gold-rush-era American West, upending Western tropes to center Chinese American migrant experience, memory, and inheritance across generations of hardship. Love and Other Thought Experiments structures a marriage and its long aftermath around a series of philosophical puzzles, using scientific thought experiments as a lens for grief, love, memory, and the limits of ever fully knowing another person. The Mirror and the Light, the concluding volume of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed Wolf Hall trilogy, tracks Thomas Cromwell through the final years of his rise and fall in Henry VIII's court, rendered with Mantel's signature immersive, present-tense intimacy and psychological depth. Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, follows a sensitive boy's fierce, unwavering love for his alcoholic mother against the backdrop of Thatcher-era deindustrialization in Glasgow's housing estates. Read together, the four novels trace how ordinary people cling to identity, love, and hope when history, illness, or ambition threatens to pull everything apart. Each novel was singled out by Booker judges for ambitious storytelling, precise prose, and genuine emotional depth, and together they reward readers who enjoy character-driven fiction with real literary weight.

Key Benefits

• Four acclaimed novels from the 2020 Booker Prize longlist in one set
• Includes Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize
• Spans historical fiction, literary romance, and family drama
• Brand new paperback set, great for gifting
• Ideal for book clubs seeking varied, discussion-worthy reads
• A strong entry point into award-winning contemporary fiction

Book-by-Book Guide
How Much of These Hills Is Gold — C Pam Zhang's debut follows two siblings burying their father across a mythic, transforming American West.
Love and Other Thought Experiments — Sophie Ward structures a marriage's unraveling around philosophical thought experiments about love and knowledge.
The Mirror and the Light — Hilary Mantel completes her Cromwell trilogy, following Thomas Cromwell through his final years in Henry VIII's court.
Shuggie Bain — Douglas Stuart's Booker-winning debut follows a boy's devotion to his mother in 1980s Glasgow.

About the Authors
C Pam Zhang is a Chinese American novelist whose acclaimed debut, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Sophie Ward is a British actress and writer whose debut novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, was also longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Hilary Mantel, the late British novelist, won two Booker Prizes for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies before completing her trilogy with The Mirror and the Light. Douglas Stuart, a Scottish American author, won the 2020 Booker Prize for his devastating debut novel, Shuggie Bain.

Why You'll Love This Collection
This collection brings together four of literary fiction's most talked-about voices from a single, remarkable prize year, including a Booker Prize winner. It's a rewarding pick for book clubs, literary fiction fans, and gift-givers marking a birthday, holiday season, or graduation with a set built to spark discussion for years.

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