Man Booker Prize Longlist 2009
The Children's Book
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
There will be huge review coverage for this new novel from A.S.Byatt, a marvellous, gripping, panoramic novel of family secrets. At the centre of the novel is Olive Wellwood, a famous writer who writes a separate book fo... Buy or find out more →
The Glass Room
$29.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landaue... Buy or find out more →
The Little Stranger
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Virago
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its mas... Buy or find out more →
Heliopolis
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
A brilliant rags-to-riches tale, reminiscent of Dickens. The follow-up to the award-winning The Amnesia Clinic.
Born in a São Paulo shantytown, Ludo undergoes a remarkable transformation. Directed by forces beyond his co... Buy or find out more →
The Wilderness
$15.00 – Paperback book / Vintage
An extraordinary debut novel by a young writer of remarkable gifts
It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life, his childhood, his marriage,... Buy or find out more →
Summertime
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Completing the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972 - 1977 w... Buy or find out more →
The Quickening Maze
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, The Quickening Maze centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect a... Buy or find out more →
Love And Summer
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Viking
It's summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs Connulty's funeral. Florian Kilderry could... Buy or find out more →
Not Untrue and Not Unkind
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin Books
In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright commits suicide. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once agai... Buy or find out more →
Wolf Hall
$32.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into t... Buy or find out more →
Me Cheeta
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
The greatest Hollywood Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, died in 1984. His coffin was lowered into the ground to the recorded sounds of his famous jungle call. Maureen O′Sullivan, his Jane, died in 1998. Weissmuller′s son, who... Buy or find out more →
How To Paint A Dead Man
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
A rich, layered contemporary novel of art, absence, loss and passion.
Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him... Buy or find out more →