Oak Tree Fine Press

The First Chapter Series ® (Booker Prize) was launched in 2006. It is a contribution by authors of the first chapter of their prize winning novels in support of children living with HIV/AIDS. Each book is published in a limited signed edition and features donated and specially commissioned artwork, including contributions by Yoko Ono, Gilbert & George and Antony Gormley.

The Booker Prize represents the very best in contemporary fiction and is awarded each year for the best original full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in the English language. From 1969 until the present day the prize continues to be the pinnacle of ambition for every writer and remains the world's most important award for literary fiction. In 2010, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children was voted the "Booker of Bookers" and it is this book which features as the final volume in our set, due to be published in early 2012.

Winners of the Booker Prize since 1969.

• 1969: P H Newby, Something to Answer For
• 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
• 1971: V S Naipaul, In a Free State
• 1972: John Berger, G.
• 1973: J G Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
• 1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
• 1974: Stanley Middleton, Holiday
• 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
• 1976: David Storey, Saville
• 1977: Paul Scott, Staying On
• 1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
• 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
• 1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage
• 1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
• 1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
• 1983: J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K
• 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
• 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
• 1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
• 1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
• 1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
• 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
• 1990: A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
• 1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
• 1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient, and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
• 1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
• 1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how late
• 1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
• 1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders
• 1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
• 1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
• 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
• 2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• 2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
• 2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi
• 2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
• 2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
• 2005: John Banville, The Sea
• 2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of loss
• 2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering
• 2008: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
• 2009: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
• 2010: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question