Man Booker 2009 longlist
The Man Booker Dozen 2009The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 longlist was announced on Tuesday 28 July 2009. Audio readings of each of the longlisted titles are available to listen and download.
The shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 8 September 2009.
The winner will be announced on Tuesday 6 October 2009.
For the second consecutive year, a teaser section of each of the titles is available to download to your mobile phone in both audio and text versions.
UK visitors text MBP to 60300* or if you are an international phone user, type gospoken.com/a/mbp09 into your phone web browser.
(*text messages charged at standard network rate)
How to Paint a Dead Man
Faber & Faber
Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both...
The Wilderness
Jonathan Cape
It’s Jake’s birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop...
Me Cheeta
Fourth Estate
The incredible, moving and hilarious story of Cheeta the Chimp, simian star of the big screen, on a behind-the-scenes romp...
Not Untrue & Not Unkind
Penguin
In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on...
Heliopolis
Harvill Secker
Born in a São Paulo shantytown, Ludo undergoes a remarkable transformation. Directed by forces beyond his control, he first leaves,...
Brooklyn
Penguin
In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her...
Love and Summer
Penguin
It’s summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn’t go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on...
