2008 Man Booker Prize Longlist
The Lost Dog
$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
Whatever the linguistic equivalent of perfect pitch may be, she has it - Sunday Telegraph (UK) The Lost Dog is the extraordinary new novel by the acclaimed writer Michelle de Kretser. Her first novel, The Rose Grower, wa... More »
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The Enchantress Of Florence
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole... More »
A Fraction of the Whole
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )
Meet the Deans.
Heroes or criminals? Crackpots of visionaries? Relatives or enemies?
It's a simple family story...
From the New South Wales bush to bohemian Paris, from sports fields to strip clubs, from the jungles of T... More »
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The Clothes On Their Backs
$33.00 (Trade paperback / Virago )
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in ... More »
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A Case Of Exploding Mangoes
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. A Case of Exploding Mangoes is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dict... More »
The White Tiger
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Atlantic Books )
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, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his... More »
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The Sea Of Poppies
$32.99$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and ... More »
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The Secret Scripture
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up ... More »
From A To X: Some Letters Recuperated By John Berger
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Verso )
In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley... More »
The Northern Clemency
$49.99 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )
Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, 'The Northern Clemency' is Philip Hensher's epic portrait of an entire era, a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people and history o... More »
Netherland
$28.00 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )
In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off–kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9/11, the powercut and the Iraq war.... More »
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