Man Booker 2009 shortlist
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2009The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 shortlist was announced on Tuesday 8 September 2009. Interviews with each of the authors can be found in the Perspective section along with audio extracts of each of their titles.
The winner was 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.
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The Children’s Book
Chatto & Windus
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes...
Summertime
Harvill Secker
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on...
The Quickening Maze
Jonathan Cape
The Quickening Maze is based on real events and is set in and around the High Beach Asylum in 1840....
The Glass Room
Little, Brown
High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a marvel of steel, glass and onyx. Built specially for...
The Little Stranger
Virago
When Dr Faraday is urgently called to Hundreds Hall, he is both curious and nostalgic. Nearly thirty years before, he had...
