BOOK AWARDS
Man Booker prize 2009
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 2009 (announced mid October)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) 9780007230181
Shortlist (announced mid-September)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| The Children's Book | A.S. Byatt | Chatto & Windus | 9780701183899 |
| Summertime | J.M. Coetzee | Harvill Secker | 9781846553189 |
| The Quickening Maze | Adam Foulds | Jonathan Cape | 9780224087469 |
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | Fourth Estate | 9780007230181 |
| The Glass Room | Simon Mawer | Little, Brown | 9781408700778 |
| The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters | Virago | 9781844086016 |
Longlist (announced mid August)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| The Children's Book | A.S. Byatt | Chatto & Windus | 9780701183899 |
| Summertime | J.M. Coetzee | Harvill Secker | 9781846553189 |
| The Quickening Maze | Adam Foulds | Jonathan Cape | 9780224087469 |
| How To Paint A Dead Man | Sarah Hall | Faber & Faber | 9780571224890 |
| The Wilderness | Sarah Harvey | Jonathan Cape | 9780224089685 |
| Me Cheeta | James Lever | Fourth Estate | 9780007278633 |
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | Fourth Estate | 9780007230181 |
| The Glass Room | Simon Mawer | Little, Brown | 9781408700778 |
| Not Untrue and Not Unkind | Ed O'Loughlin | Penguin Ireland | 9781844882106 |
| Heliopolis | James Scudamore | Harvill Secker | 9781846551888 |
| Brooklyn | Colm Toibin | Viking | 9780670918126 |
| Love and Summer | William Trevor | Viking | 9780670918249 |
| The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters | Virago | 9781844086016 |
