BOOK AWARDS
Man Booker prize 2005
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 2004 (announced mid October)
The Sea by John Banville (Picador) 0330483285
Shortlist (announced mid-September)
The Sea John Banville (Picador)
Arthur & George Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)
A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)
The Accidental Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
On Beauty Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
Longlist (announced mid August)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| The Harmony Silk Factory | Tash Aw | Fourth Estate | 000718204X |
| The Sea | John Banville | Picador | 0330483285 |
| Arthur & George | Julian Barnes | Jonathan Cape | 0224077031 |
| A Long Long Way | Sebastian Barry | Faber & Faber | 0571218008 |
| Slow Man | J.M. Coetzee | Secker & Warburg | 0436206110 |
| In The Fold | Rachel Cusk | Faber & Faber | 0571228135 |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Faber & Faber | 0571224113 |
| All For Love: A Novel | Dan Jacobson | Hamish Hamilton | 0241142733 |
| A Short Histort of Tractors in Ukrainian | Marina Lewycka | Viking | 0670915602 |
| Beyond Black | Hilary Mantel | Fourth Estates | 0007157754 |
| Saturday | Ian McEwan | Jonathan Cape | 0224072994 |
| The People's Act of Love | James Meek | Canongate | 1841956546 |
| Shalimar the Clown | Salman Rushdie | Jonathan Cape | 0224061615 |
| The Accidental | Ali Smith | Hamish Hamilton | 0241141907 |
| On Beauty | Zadie Smith | Hamish Hamilton | 0241142938 |
| This Thing of Darkness | Harry Thompson | Review | 075530280X |
| This is The Country | William Wall | Sceptre | 0340822155 |
