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Man Booker Prize Longlist 2010

Parrot And Olivier In America
Peter Carey

$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
David Mitchell

$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 



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Room
Emma Donoghue

$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
Andrea Levy

$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
Damon Galgut

$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
Alan Warner

$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
Rose Tremain

$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
Paul Murray

$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
Lisa Moore

$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
Tom McCarthy

$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
Howard Jacobson

$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
Helen Dunmore

$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 



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