litfarm » booker 2009 http://www.litfarm.com get writing. get published. Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:00:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 longlist for booker 2009 http://www.litfarm.com/2009/08/20/longlist-for-booker-2009/ http://www.litfarm.com/2009/08/20/longlist-for-booker-2009/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:57:38 +0000 chris http://www.litfarm.com/?p=288 The Man Booker judges have announced the so-called “Booker dozen” of thirteen titles up for the big prize this year.

I’m going to read them all before the prize is announced. Here’s the list:

Byatt, AS                      The Children’s Book

Coetzee, J M               Summertime

Foulds, Adam              The Quickening Maze

Hall, Sarah                   How to paint a dead man

Harvey, Samantha      The Wilderness

Lever, James                Me Cheeta

Mantel, Hilary              Wolf Hall

Mawer, Simon             The Glass Room

O’Loughlin, Ed             Not Untrue & Not Unkind

Scudamore, James      Heliopolis

Toibin, Colm                Brooklyn

Trevor, William             Love and Summer

Waters, Sarah              The Little Stranger

In other cool Booker news, a photographer with the fantastic name Graham Fudger read excerpts from all thirteen books on Trafalgar Square’s Forth Plinth, starting with his favorite, Me Cheeta.

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