2008 Literary Award Winners
The Time We Have Taken
$24.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken‚ our moment.
One summer morning in 1970‚ Peter van Rijn‚ proprietor of the television and wireless shop‚ pronounces... More »
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The White Tiger
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Atlantic Books )
Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, brea... More »
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The Zookeeper's War
$27.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Winner of the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Prize for Fiction.
In Berlin, who can you trust?
A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ...
It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin ... More »
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
Winner of the 2008 Winner 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming... More »
De Niro's Game
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
Winner of the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
De Niro's Game chronicles the madness of the Beirut civil war with dark humour and beautifully manicured urgency... Creates images that explode in the reader'... More »
The Road Home
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Winner of the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Ficiton.
Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter.
Readers will become totally in... More »
Someone Knows My Name
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The abolitionists say they have brought me to England to help them change the course of history. Well. We shall see about that. But if I have lived this long, it must be for... More »
Tree Of Smoke
$22.99 (Paperback book / Picador )
Winner of the 2007 National Book Award.
Tree of Smoke the name given to a "psy op" that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned is Denis Johnson's most gripping, visionary and a... More »
Unaccustomed Earth
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
Winner of the 2008 Frank O'Connor Award.
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and
generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth follows new lives
forged in the wake of loss.
These are stories in which deeply... More »