Congratulations to and , the two Canadian authors on The 2011 Man Booker Shortlist. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner is awarded £50,000.
This year's short list is,| Categories: Awards |
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2011. The story of a man coming to terms with the mutable past, Julian Barnes's new novel is laced with his trademark precision, dexterity and insigh...
London, 1857: meet Jaf, a young street urchin who survives an encounter with an escaped tiger in the city’s East End and stumbles into a job for its owner, Mr. Jamrach, a collector and se...
Winner of the 2011 Giller Prize for Fiction. Paris, 1940. A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. He is a Germ...
The spellbinding story of a boy learning to survive inner-city England -- but when he starts his own murder investigation, local thugs are not amused...
Nick Platt is an English lawyer living in Moscow during the wild Russian oil boom. Riding the subway on a balmy September day, he rescues two willowy sisters, Masha and Katya, from would-...
