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Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey loosens the reins

Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey loosens the reins

Update: 2025-06-08
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Samantha Harvey didn’t mean to write a space novel—but Orbital won the Booker. At the 2025 Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival, she talks dreams, insomnia, and crafting a plotless “space pastoral” that’s anything but ordinary.

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Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey loosens the reins

Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey loosens the reins

Australian Broadcasting Corporation