BOOK AWARDS
Man Booker prize 2006
http://www.themanbookerprize.com
Awarded in October each year, the prize is now officially called the Man Booker Prize, in honour of its sponsor until 2006, global investment broker Man Group while retaining the name of its original sponsor, food distribution firm Booker, which established the prize in 1969 to encourage interest in contemporary fiction.
Awarded to the best full-length novel of the year, the prize is open to authors from the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth, the winner receiving £50,000, with £2,500 for each of the six shortlisted authors.
Winner 2006 (announced mid October)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton) 9780241143483
Shortlist (announced mid-September)
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)
The Secret River Kate Grenville (Canongate)
Carry Me Down M.J. Hyland (Canongate)
In the Country of Men Hisham Matar (Viking)
Mother’s Milk Edward St Aubyn (Picador)
The Night Watch Sarah Waters (Virago)
Longlist (announced mid August)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Theft: A love Story | Peter Carey | Faber & Faber | 9780571231478 |
| The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | Hamish Hamilton | 9780241143483 |
| Gathering the Water | Robert Edric | Doubleday | 9780385603126 |
| Get a Life | Nadine Gordimer | Bloomsbury | 9780747581758 |
| The Secret River | Kate Grenville | Canongate | 9781841956824 |
| Carry Me Down | MJ Hyland | Canongate | 9781841957340 |
| Kalooki Nights | Howard Jacobson | Jonathan Cape | 9780224078658 |
| Seven Lies | James Lasdun | Jonathan Cape | 9780224075923 |
| The Other Side of The Bridge | Mary Lawson | Chatto & Windus | 9780701173272 |
| So Many Ways to Begin | Jon McGregor | Bloomsbury | 9780747579465 |
| In The Country of Men | Hisham Matar | Viking | 9780670916399 |
| The Emperor's Children | Claire Messud | Picador | 9780330444477 |
| Black Swan Green | David Mitchell | Sceptre | 9780340822791 |
| The Perfect Man | Naeem Murr | William Heinemann | 9780434011148 |
| Be Near Me | Andrew O'Hagan | Faber & Faber | 9780571216024 |
| The Testament of Gideon Mack | James Robertson | Hamish Hamilton | 9780241143254 |
| Mother's Milk | Edward St Aubyn | Picador | 9780330435895 |
| The Ruby in Her Naval | Barry Unsworth | Hamish Hamilton | 9780241142202 |
| The Night Watch | Sarah Waters | Virago | 9781844082469 |
