Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2009
Wolf Hall
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Go backstage during the most dramatic period in English history: the reign of Henry VIII.
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey... Buy or find out more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →