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On of the very few International Literary Awards to glean any attention in the USA the Man Booker Prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The winner of the Booker receives £50,000 ($100,000) and both they and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a worldwide readership plus a dramatic increase in book sales.
The winners over the years reads like a Who's Who of fine authors. They include such luminaries as Peter Carey (2001, 1989), J.M. Coetzee (1999, 1983), Arundhati Roy (1997), Michael Ondaatje 1992), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Kingsley Amis 1986), Thomas Kennelly (1982), Salman Rushdie (1981), Iris Murdoch (1978) and V.S. Naipul (1971), to name but a few.
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Man Booker Prize 2008 shortlist
Sept 9th- Two first-time novelists, Aravind Adiga and Steve Toltz, survived the cull of the longlist from thirteen novels to just six. Previous winners of the Booker Prize, John Berger and Salman Rushdie, failed to make this year's shortlist and Sebastian Barry is the only novelist shortlisted for this year's prize to have been previously shortlisted (in 2005).
Linda Grant, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002, is the only female author to make the shortlist of six. She is joined by Philip Hensher, longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002 and a Booker judge in 2001, and the widely-acclaimed Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.
The Man Booker Prize 2008 shortlisted novels are:
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger (Atlantic)
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture (Faber and Faber)
Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies (John Murray)
Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs (Virago)
Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency (Fourth Estate)
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole (Hamish Hamilton)
Is the Booker Losing It's Allure? Comment on Shortlist and Prize on Book Award Tragic Blog>>
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Aravind Adiga The White Tiger: A Novel
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Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master."The White Tiger" presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a murderer, "The White Tiger" is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.
ISBN: 1843547201
EAN: 9781843547204
Reviews
"'In the grand illusions of a 'rising' India, Aravind Adiga has found a subject Gogol might have envied. With remorselessly and delightfully mordant wit The White Tiger anatomizes the fantastic cravings of the rich; it evokes, too, with starting accuracy and tenderness, the no less desperate struggles of the deprived.' Pankaj Mishra"
About the Author
Aravind Adiga (right) was born in Madras in 1974. He has lived in India, Australia, America and the UK. He has worked for the Financial Times in New York and for Time in India. His short story collection, Between the Assassinations, was published by Picador India in 2007. The White Tiger is his first novel.
Sebastian Barry(left) The Secret Scripture
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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 to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571215289
EAN: 9780571215287
Amitav Ghosh (right) Sea of Poppies: A Novel
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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 convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves asjahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, which makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive -- a masterpiece from one of the world's finest novelists.
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 0719568951
EAN: 9780719568954
Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency
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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, The Northern Clemency is Philip Hensher's epic portrait of an entire era, a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people and history on the move. Set in Sheffield, it charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours the Sellers family, newly arrived from London so that Bernie can pursue his job with the Electricity Board. The day the Sellers move in there is a crisis across the road: Malcolm Glover has left home, convinced his wife is having an affair. The consequences of this rupture will spread throughout the lives of both couples and their children, in particular 10-year-old Tim Glover, who never quite recovers from a moment of his mother's public cruelty and the amused taunting of 15-year-old Sandra Sellers, childhood crises that will come to a head twenty years later.In the background, England is changing: from a manufacturing and industrial based economy into a new world of shops, restaurants and service industries, a shift particularly marked in the North with the miners' strike of 1984, which has a dramatic impact on both families. Inspired by the expansive scale and webs of relationships of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels, 'The Northern Clemency' shows Philip Hensher to be one of our greatest chroniclers of English life.
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
ISBN: 0007174799
EAN: 9780007174799
Linda Grant (left) The Clothes on Their Backs
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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 a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live. Set against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise and tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress ourselves in, and about how they define us all.
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
ISBN: 1844085414
EAN: 9781844085415
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole
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An uproarious indictment of the ridiculousness of the modern world and it's mores, this novel also tells the moving, memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many shortcomings.
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
The judges for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced the longlist for this year's prize.
The longlist of 13 books, often referred to as the ‘Man Booker Dozen', was chosen from 112 entries; 103 were submitted for the prize and nine were called in by the judges.
The titles are:
Gaynor Arnold Girl in a Blue Dress
John Berger From A to X
Michelle de Kretser The Lost Dog
Mohammed Hanif A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Joseph O'Neill Netherland
Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence
Tom Rob Smith Child 44
Booker Commentary and Editorial 'Book Award Tragic Blog'>>
Chair of judges, Michael Portillo, commented:
"With a notable degree of consensus, the five Man Booker judges decided on their longlist of 13 books. The judges are pleased with the geographical balance of the longlist with writers from Pakistan, India, Australia, Ireland and UK. We also are happy with the interesting mix of books, five first novels and two novels by former winners. The list covers an extraordinary variety of writing. Still two qualities emerge this year: large scale narrative and the striking use of humour."
2008 judges
The judging panel for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: Michael Portillo (Chair), former MP and Cabinet Minister, Alex Clark, editor of Granta; Louise Doughty, novelist; James Heneage, founder of Ottakar's bookshops and Hardeep Singh Kohli, TV and radio broadcaster.
Gaynor Arnold Girl in a Blue Dress
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Alfred Gibson's funeral has taken place at Westminister Abbey, and his wife of twenty years, Dorothea, has not been invited. The Great Man favours his children and a clandestine mistress over his estranged wife. Dorothea revisits their early courtship before the birth of too many children snapped her vitality, and discovers the devious nature and hypnotic power of this celebrity author. Now she needs to face her grown up children, and worse, her nemesis of ten years, the charming Miss Ricketts. This is a re-telling of the lives of Charles and Catherine Dickens.
Publisher: TINDAL STREET PRESS; FICT edition (9 Nov 2008)
ISBN-10: 0955647614
ISBN-13: 978-0955647611
John Berger (right) From A to X: Some Letters Recuperated by John Berger
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In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity - an intimate dance, a shared meal - assume for A'ida a life-affirming significance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them. From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844672883
EAN: 9781844672882
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Michelle de Kretser (left) The Lost Dog
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Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote bush shack trying to finish his book on Henry James when his beloved dog goes missing. What follows is a triumph of storytelling, as The Lost Dog loops back and forth in time to take the reader on a spellbinding journey into worlds far removed from the present tragedy. Set in present-day Australia and mid-twentieth century India, here is a haunting, layered work that brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the untamed, ancient continent beyond. With its atmosphere of menace and an acute sense of the unexplained in any story, it illuminates the collision of the wild and the civilised, modernity and the past, home and exile. The Lost Dog is a mystery and a love story, an exploration of art and nature, a meditation on ageing and the passage of time. It is a book of wonders: a gripping contemporary novel which examines the weight of history as well as different ways of understanding the world.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741753392
EAN: 9781741753394
About the Author
Winner of the Orange Prize and the David Higham Award, Linda Grant is the author of two works of non-fiction and three previous novels: STILL HERE, WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES and THE CAST IRON SHORE.
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Mohammed Hanif A Case of Exploding Mangoes
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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 dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? Was it because of: mechanical failure; human error; the CIA's impatience; a blind woman's curse; generals not happy with their pension plans; the mango season Or could it be your narrator, Ali Shigri? Here are the facts such as: a military dictator reads the Quran every morning as if it was his daily horoscope; under officer Ali Shigri carries a deadly message on the tip of his sword; his friend Obaid answers all life's questions with a splash of eau de cologne and a quote from Rilke; and a crow has crossed the Pakistani border illegally.As young Shigri moves from a mosque hall to his military barracks before ending up in a Mughal dungeon, there are questions that haunt him: What does it mean to betray someone and still love them? How many names does Allah really have? Who killed his father, Colonel Shigri? Who will kill his killers? And where the hell has Obaid disappeared to? Teasing, provocative, and very funny, Mohammed Hanif's debut novel takes one of the subcontinent's enduring mysteries and out if it spins a tale as rich and colourful as a beggar's dream.
About the Author
Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan, in 1965. He graduated from Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer, but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. He has written plays for the stage and BBC radio, and his film 'The Long Night' has been shown at film festivals around the world. He is a graduate of UEA's creative writing programme. He is currently head of the BBC's Urdu Service and lives in London.
About the Author
Philip Hensher is a columnist for The Independent, arts critic for The Spectator and a Granta Best of Young British novelist. He has written five novels, Other Lulus
Joseph O'Neill Netherland: A Novel
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The author of the "New York Times" Notable Book Blood-Dark Track: A Family History
ISBN-10: 0307377040
ISBN-13: 978-0307377043
Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel
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A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler 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 imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Koz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment andsorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbek warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan.When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, and much trouble ensues. The "Enchantress of Florence" is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia's boyhood friend 'il Machia' - Niccolo Machiavelli - is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he's a liar, must he die?
About the Author
Salman Rushdie is the author of nine novels, one collection of short stories, and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the Booker of Bookers, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years and more recently also won the Best of Booke after 40 years! . The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
ISBN: 0224061631
EAN: 9780224061636
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Tom Rob Smith Child 44
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MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 1847371264
EAN: 9781847371263
Kevin Parker rounds it-up- October 17, 2007 London-In a shock result Irish author Anne Enright has won the £50,000 (US$102,000) award for her novel The Gathering.
The prize, founded in 1969, rewards the best novel of the year by a writer from Britain, Ireland or a Commonwealth country. It guarantees the winner instant literary fame and a place in bestseller lists around the globe.
Enright let the surprise anddelight show on her face as she thanked all those who had kept faith with her down through the years - and told her two children watching the announcement on TV that they could go to bed now.
"Well, there is nothing to say except I would like to thank the love of my life Martin Murphy [director of the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire] and the two fantastic children he gave me," she said, before also thanking her parents and siblings.
The author, who lives in Bray, Co Wicklow, said she wished to single out for thanks her friends Ann Marie Hourihane and Colm Toibín "who told me my ship would come in".
In a controversial twist, the Booker chairman launched an attack on reviewers. Too many reviewers adopt a reverential tone for books that barely deserve a review, let alone recommendation, the chairman of the 2007 Man Booker Prize said last night.
Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics, used last night’s awards ceremony as a platform to mount the attack on the art of book reviewing before announcing that Anne Enright had won this year’s £50,000 award.
Enright, 45, a little-known Irish author who began her career as a television producer, was considered the rank outsider but she saw off competition from the two favourites, Ian McEwan, for On Chesil Beach: A Novel
The winning book, The Gathering, is Enright's fourth novel, a bleak story of a dysfunctional Irish family.
Sir Howard Davies described it as “a powerful, uncomfortable and even, at times, angry book . . . an unflinching look at a grieving family in tough and striking language”.
That a relatively unknown author won this year’s Man Booker Prize added strength to his argument that novelists who reviewed books by established authors often went overboard in their praise . He said: “I think a little more distance, and critical scepticism, is required by our reviewers, together with greater readiness to notice new names.
Reviews The Gathering
The Independent review
by Patricia Craig
The Guardian review
by Al Kennedy
The Observer review
by Adam Mars-Jon
Of all the books up for this years award,The Gathering., with the possible exception of Nicola Barker's worthwhile but challenging Darkmans
region myself, the co-favourite Mister Pip
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
It also seems that literary judges, perhaps shaken out of their lethergy by some less than kindly remarks regarding their performance in recent times, have decided to strike back at 'author reviewers' by taking a contrarian view. Take Sir Howard Davies's reamrks before presenting this years prize to Enright. Whilst stopping short of accusing reviewing authors of back-scratching, though he said he was well aware that such practices went on, he called for “more diversity in the sort of people who review novels”. Speaking at Guildhall in the City of London, he said the five relatively unknown shortlisted authors, including favourite, McEwan, had been whittled down from 110 entries spanning more than 35,000 pages. He told The Times that too many reviewers praised “every effort” by established writers while ignoring the newer talents. Fighting words Sir Howard. He doesn't mean any of us who review from time to time, really he doesn't.
He was also disparaging of the “sins of omission”, noting that one of the authors shortlisted by Man Booker was completely ignored by the national press. Indra Sinha’sAnimal's People: A Novel
Kevin Parker - kevinparker@bookawardsonline.com
Darkmans
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
On Chesil Beach: A Novel
Animal's People: A Novel, by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)-
Self Help
The Gift of Rain: A Novel
The Welsh Girl
Gifted: A Novel
What Was Lost: A Novel
Consolation: A Novel
Winnie and Wolf
by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate)-by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton) by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape) Winner 2006: Kiran Desai (right), The Inheritance of Loss
o Kate Grenville, The Secret River
o M. J. Hyland, Carry Me Down
o Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
o Edward St Aubyn, Mother's Milk: A Novel
o Sarah Waters, The Night Watch
Winner 2005: John Banville, The Sea
o Julian Barnes, Arthur and George
o Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way
o Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
o Ali Smith, The Accidental
o Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Winner 2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty: A Novel
o Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit: A Novel
o Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.)
o David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas: A Novel
o Colm Tóibín, The Master: A Novel
o Gerard Woodward, I'll Go to Bed at Noon: A Novel
Winner 2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
o Monica Ali, Brick Lane: A Novel
o Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
o Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor: A Novel
o Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?: A Novel
o Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes of Colour (P.S.)
Winner 2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi: Deluxe Illustrated Edition
o Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
o Carol Shields, Unless: A Novel (P.S.)
o William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
o Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
o Tim Winton ,Dirt Music : A Novel
Winner 2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel
o Ian McEwan, Atonement
o Andrew Miller, Oxygen
o David Mitchell, Number9Dream
o Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room: A Novel
o Ali Smith, Hotel World
Winner 2000: Margaret Atwood (right), The Blind Assassin: A Novel
o Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place
o Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth
o Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
o Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
o Brian O'Doherty, The Deposition of Father McGreevey
Winner 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
o Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting
o Michael Frayn, Headlong
o Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers
o Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
o Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship
Winner 1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
o Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie
o Julian Barnes, England, England
o Martin Booth, The Industry of Souls
o Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto
o Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts
Winner 1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
o Jim Crace, Quarantine
o Mick Jackson, The Underground Man
o Bernard MacLaverty, Grace Notes
o Tim Parks, Europa
o Madeleine St John, The Essence of the Thing
Winner 1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders
o Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
o Beryl Bainbridge, Every Man for Himself
o Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark
o Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire
o Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Winner 1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
o Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet
o Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh
o Barry Unsworth, Morality Play
o Tim Winton, The Riders
Winner 1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how late
o Romesh Gunesekera, Reef
o Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise
o Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
o George Mackay Brown, Beside the Ocean of Time
o Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of Angels
Winner 1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
o Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog
o Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue
o David Malouf, Remembering Babylon
o Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
o Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Winner 1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient, and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
o Christopher Hope, Serenity House
o Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy
o Ian McEwan, Black Dogs
o Michèle Roberts, Daughters of the House
Winner 1991: Ben Okri (right), The Famished Road
o Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
o Roddy Doyle, The Van
o Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
o Timothy Mo, The Redundancy of Courage
o William Trevor, Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives)
Winner 1990: A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
o Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure
o Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels
o John McGahern, Amongst Women
o Brian Moore, Lies of Silence
o Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
Winner 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
o Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
o John Banville, The Book of Evidence
o Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw
o James Kelman, A Disaffection
o Rose Tremain, Restoration
Winner 1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
o Bruce Chatwin, Utz
o Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring
o David Lodge, Nice Work
o Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
o Marina Warner, The Lost Father
Winner 1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
o Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
o Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton
o Nina Bawden, Circles of Deceit
o Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood
o Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood
Winner 1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
o Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
o Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament
o Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
o Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
o Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession
Winner 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
o Peter Carey, Illywhacker
o J. L. Carr, The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
o Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
o Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav
o Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice
Winner 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
o J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
o Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
o Anita Desai, In Custody
o Penelope Lively, According to Mark
o David Lodge, Small World
Winner 1983: J. M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
o Malcolm Bradbury, Rates of Exchange
o John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere
o Anita Mason, The Illusionist
o Salman Rushdie, Shame
o Graham Swift, Waterland
Winner 1982: Thomas Keneally (right), Schindler's Ark
o John Arden, Silence Among the Weapons (also published as Vox Pop: Last Days of the Roman Republic)
o William Boyd, An Ice-Cream War
o Lawrence Durrell, Constance or Solitary
o Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom
o Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet*
Winner 1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
o Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
o Doris Lessing, The Sirian Experiments
o Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers
o Ann Schlee, Rhine Journey
o Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent
o D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel
Winner 1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage
o Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
o Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
o Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid
o Julia O'Faolain, No Country for Young Men
o Barry Unsworth, Pascali's Island
o J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country
Winner 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
o Thomas Keneally, Confederates
o V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
o Julian Rathbone, Joseph
o Fay Weldon, Praxis
Winner 1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
o Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing
o André Brink, Rumours of Rain
o Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
o Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks
o Bernice Rubens, A Five-Year Sentence
Winner 1977: Paul Scott, Staying On
o Paul Bailey, Peter Smart's Confessions
o Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster
o Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on our Skin
o Penelope Lively, The Road to Lichfield
o Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn
Winner 1976: David Storey, Saville
o André Brink, An Instant in the Wind
o R. C. Hutchinson, Rising
o Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife
o Julian Rathbone, King Fisher Lives
o William Trevor, The Children of Dynmouth
Winner 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
o Thomas Keneally, Gossip from the Forest
Winner 1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist, and Stanley Middleton, Holiday
o Kingsley Amis, Ending Up
o Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
o C. P. Snow, In Their Wisdom
Winner 1973: James Gordon Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
o Beryl Bainbridge, The Dressmaker
o Elizabeth Mavor, The Green Equinox
o Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
Winner 1972: John Berger, G.
o Susan Hill, The Bird of Night
o Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
o David Storey, Pasmore
Winner 1971: V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State
o Thomas Kilroy, The Big Chapel
o Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell
o Mordecai Richler, St Urbain's Horseman
o Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron
o Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Winner 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
o A. L. Barker, John Brown's Body
o Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
o Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream
o William Trevor, Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
o T. W. Wheeler, The Conjunction
Winner 1969: Percy Howard Newby, Something to Answer For
o Barry England, Figures in a Landscape
o Nicholas Mosley, Impossible Object
o Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
o Muriel Spark, The Public Image
o G. M. Williams, From Scenes like These
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