Wednesday, September 9, 2009

On the Man Booker...

For all those who don't know yet, the Man Booker prize shortlist has been released. And those who made it are:

A S Byatt The Children's Book (Random House, Chatto and Windus)

J M Coetzee Summertime (Random House, Harvill Secker)

Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze (Random House, Jonathan Cape)

Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate)

Simon Mawer The Glass Room (Little, Brown)

Sarah Waters The Little Stranger (Little, Brown, Virago)

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4 comments:

  1. thanks for this. literary bloggers and talking about it. who do you think would win?

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  2. I haven't read any of this. For some reason this year the Booker Prize shortlist doesn't excite me. I'm not a Coetzee lover and I haven't read anything from the other writers, but maybe there's a jewel in this list and I don't know...

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  3. na wa o! this coetzee guy is keen on taking this thing again. o ga gan. byt A.S Byatt is my bet!

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  4. I like Hilary Mantel though I've not read this book.

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