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Booker Prize Shortlist 2006

Carry Me Down
M.J. Hyland

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006

Carry Me Down is a spell-binding psychological thriller about a boy's obsessive and dangerous desire to see the truth. A singular tale of disturbed love, it announces M. J. Hylan... Buy or find out more 


In The Country Of Men
Hisham Matar

$32.95 – Paperback book / Viking

On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business - except that he is sure he has just seen his father, s... Buy or find out more 



Mother's Milk
Edward St Aubyn

$44.00 – Hardcover book / Picador

The novel's perspective ricochets among all members of the Melrose family – the family featured in St Aubyn's praised trilogy, Some Hope – starting with Robert, who provides an exceptionally droll and compelling account ... Buy or find out more 


The Night Watch
Sarah Waters

$24.95 – Paperback book / Virago

Sarah Water's wonderful new novel: The Night Watch is a move away from Victorian times. The background is of London finding its soul again after the bombings of the Second World War. Told backwards from 1947 to 1941, thi... Buy or find out more 



The Inheritance Of Loss
Kiran Desai

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned gran... Buy or find out more 


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