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The Man Booker Prize 2009 shortlist is announced

Category : Book Trade News

And this list is…:

A S Byatt The Children’s Book (Random House, Chatto and Windus)

J M Coetzee Summertime (Random House, Harvill Secker)

Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze (Random House, Jonathan Cape)

Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate)

Simon Mawer The Glass Room (Little, Brown)

Sarah Waters The Little Stranger (Little, Brown, Virago)

The favourite at the moment is Hilary Mantel, but there is buzz around Coetzee making it a hat-trick with a third win!

Official Man Booker Prize website.

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