The Golden Man Booker Prize is a special award to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Booker Prize. Five judges have chosen the best work of fiction from the last five decades - with the winner voted for by the public. The ‘Golden Five’ – the five books thought to have best stood the test of time in their respective decades – are:
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul (1971)
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (1987)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009)
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (2017)