Man Booker Prize Longlist 2010
Parrot And Olivier In America
$32.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton
Short listed for the American Book Award
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but h... Buy or find out more →
The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob de Zoet
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress s... Buy or find out more →
Room
$32.95$22.95 – Trade paperback / Picador
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world
Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too.... Buy or find out more →
The Long Song
$32.99 – Hardcover book / Headline
You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, ... Buy or find out more →
In A Strange Room
$30.00$14.95 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
The most intense and passionate novel to date from Man Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut: 'the bold, fresh voice of South African fiction.' - Observer
A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Afri... Buy or find out more →
The Stars In The Bright Sky
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
The Sopranos are back: out of school and out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday to celebrate their reunion. Kay, Kylah, Manda, Rachel and Finn are joined by Finn’s equally gorgeou... Buy or find out more →
Trespass
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
Rose Tremain won the 2008 Orange Prize. Her brilliant new novel, Trespass, is a gripping story of redemption and revenge, in the beautiful, sinister setting of the gorges and forests of the Cevennes.
Set among the hills ... Buy or find out more →
Skippy Dies
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is... Buy or find out more →
February
$32.95 – Paperback book / Jonathan Cape
From the publishers of Mary Lawson and Alice Munro, a moving and masterful novel by 'an astonishing writer' (Richard Ford)
In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night s... Buy or find out more →
C
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
The author of 'one of the great English novels of the past ten years' moves to the next level, with a novel of thrilling action, imagination and ambition, perfect for fans of Bolano and Pynchon. DESCRIPTION OF BOOK C fol... Buy or find out more →
The Finkler Question
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Funny, furious, unflinching - an extraordinary novel from the award-winning giant of literature, Howard Jacobson.
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disap... Buy or find out more →
The Betrayal
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Fig Tree
Leningrad in 1952: a city recovering from war, where Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together. Summers at the dacha, preparations for the hospital ball, work and the... Buy or find out more →