The Booker Prizes | Jarvis Cocker reads from 'Treacle Walker' by Alan Garner | The Booker Prize @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Watch Jarvis Cocker read an extract from Treacle Walker by Alan Garner, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022.

The story so far: Joe Coppock, a solitary, partially-sighted child, forges an unlikely friendship with a mysterious wanderer named Treacle Walker and is introduced to a magical world where comic books come to life, and to an ancient bog man named Thin Amren.

Directed by Kevin Thomas for Mermade Films

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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