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| The Man Booker Prize for Fiction represents the very best of contemporary fiction. One of the world's most distinctive awards, and one of incomparable influence, it continues to be the pinnacle for every fiction writer. Established by Booker plc in 1968, the prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or Republic of Ireland. The Man Booker judges are selected from the country's finest critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize. The winner receives £50,000 and both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a worldwide audience and a dramatic increase in book sales. |
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2008 Longlist |
A Case Of Exploding Mangoes
Author: Mohammed Hanif
Category: Fiction - Modern & Contemporary
There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. A Case of Exploding Mangoes is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dict ... |
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Child 44
Author: Tom Rob Smith
The Soviet Union, 1953. Under Stalin's regime the only crimes recognised are those against the State. When the mutilated body of a young boy is discovered on train tracks in Moscow, Officer Leo Demidov – a war hero, utte ... |
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The Clothes on Their Backs
Author: Linda Grant
Category: Fiction - General
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in ... |
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The Enchantress of Florence
Author: Salman Rushdie
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole ... |
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A Fraction of the Whole
Author: Steve Toltz
Meet the Deans. After an injury which cut short a golden sporting career, Jasper's uncle became Australia's most beloved murderer. After a lifetime of impossible ideas and a brief stint as the country's saviour, Jasper's ... |
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The Lost Dog
Author: Michelle de Kretser
Category: Fiction - General
Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th century India, The Lost Dog is a haunting, beautifully written work that brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the wild, ancient continent beyond. |
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Netherland
Author: Joseph O'Neill
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off-kilter New ... |
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The Northern Clemency
Author: Philip Hensher
An epic chronicle of the last 20 years of British life from the Booker longlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, ... |
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Sea of Poppies
Author: Amitav Ghosh
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and ... |
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The Secret Scripture
Author: Sebastian Barry
Nearing her one hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up ... |
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White Tiger
Author: Aravind Adiga
`Unlike almost any other Indian novel you might have read in recent years, this page-turner offers a completely bald, angry, unadorned portrait of the country as seen from the bottom of the heap; there's not a sniff of s ... |
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2007 WINNER |
The Gathering
Author: Anne Enright
Category: Fiction - General
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in ... |
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2006 WINNER |
The Inheritance of Loss
Author: Kiran Desai
Category: Fiction - General
In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her ... |
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2005 WINNER |
The Sea
Author: John Banville
Category: Fiction - General
This title is the winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distan ... |
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2004 WINNER |
The Line of Beauty
Author: Alan Hollinghurst
Category: Fiction - General
It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife R ... |
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2003 WINNER |
Vernon God Little
Author: DBC Pierre
Category: Fiction - General
Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded w ... |
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2002 WINNER |
Life of Pi
Author: Yann Martel
Category: Fiction - General
Like its noteworthy ancestors (Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner and Moby Dick) Life of Pi is a tale of disaster at sea. Both a boys' own adventure (for grown-ups) and a meditation on faith and the ... |
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2001 WINNER |
True History of the Kelly Gang
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2000 WINNER |
The Blind Assassin
Author: Margaret Atwood
Category: Fiction - General
Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First ... |
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1999 WINNER |
Disgrace
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1998 WINNER |
Amsterdam
Author: Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction - General
Two old friends, Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence. In ... |
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1997 WINNER |
The God of Small Things
Author: Arundhati Roy
Category: Fiction - General
Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this novel tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory they try to craf ... |
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1996 WINNER |
Last Orders
Author: Graham Swift
Category: Fiction - General
This novel follows four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, who meet to carry out his last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. |
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1995 WINNER |
The Ghost Road
Author: Pat Barker
Category: Fiction - General
'The Ghost Road is a startlingly good novel ...With the other two volumes of the trilogy, it forms one of the richest and most rewarding works of fiction of recent times. Intricately plotted, beautifully written, skilful ... |
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1994 WINNER |
How Late it Was, How Late
Author: James Kelman
Category: Fiction - General
Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but s ... |
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1993 WINNER |
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Author: Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction - General
Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at ... |
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1992 WINNER |
The English Patient
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Category: Fiction - Action & Adventure War & Combat
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymou ... |
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Sacred Hunger
Author: Barry Unsworth
Category: Fiction - General
Through the story of an 18th century slave ship, this novel explores moral choices, the corruptions of greed and material gain, and men's behaviour in extremis. It also articulates current concerns of corruption and dist ... |
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1991 WINNER |
The Famished Road
Author: Ben Okri
Category: Fiction - General
Azario is a spirit child who is born to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is a beautifully written and movin ... |
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1990 WINNER |
Possession
Author: A.S. Byatt
Category: Fiction - General
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets.Following ... |
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1989 WINNER |
The Remains of the Day
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1988 WINNER |
Oscar and Lucinda
Author: Peter Carey
Category: Fiction - General
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken w ... |
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1987 WINNER |
Moon Tiger
Author: Penelope Lively
Category: Fiction - General
Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: a history of the world and in the process, my own'. Gradual ... |
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1986 WINNER |
The Old Devils
Author: Kingsley Amis
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver and ... |
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1985 WINNER |
The Bone People
Author: Keri Hulme
Category: Fiction - General
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, The Bone People is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by th ... |
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1984 WINNER |
Hotel du Lac
Author: Anita Brookner
Category: Fiction - General
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly si ... |
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1983 WINNER |
The Life and Times of Michael K
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Category: Fiction - General
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable ... |
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1982 WINNER |
Schindler's Ark
Author: Thomas Keneally
Category: History - Holocaust
Category: True Stories - War
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordin ... |
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1981 WINNER |
Midnight's Children
Author: Salman Rushdie
Category: Fiction - General
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endo ... |
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1980 WINNER |
Rites of Passage
Author: William Golding
Category: Fiction - General
In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to entertain his godfather back in England. With wit and disdain he records mounting tensions on board, as an obsequious clergyman ... |
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1978 WINNER |
The Sea, the Sea
Author: Iris Murdoch
Category: Fiction - General
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood ... |
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1977 WINNER |
Staying on
Author: Paul Scott
Category: Fiction - General
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric i ... |
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1976 WINNER |
Saville
Author: David Storey
Category: Fiction - General
Set in South Yorkshire, this is the story of Colin's struggle to come to terms with his family - his mercurial, ambitious father, his deep-feeling, long-suffering mother - and to escape the stifling heritage of the raw m ... |
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1974 WINNER |
The Conservationist
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Category: Fiction - General
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him his foreman and workers become increasingly in ... |
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1973 WINNER |
The Siege of Krishnapur
Author: J.G. Farrell
Category: Fiction - Historical General
In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the neares ... |
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