Man Booker 2008 longlist

The Man Booker Dozen 2008

The longlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on Tuesday 29 July 2008.

  • Gaynor Arnold

    Girl in a Blue Dress

    Tindal Street Press

    Alfred Gibson’s funeral has taken place at Westminster Abbey, and Dorothea, his wife of twenty years, has not been invited....

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    Girl in a Blue Dress
  • John Berger

    From A to X

    Verso

    In a dusty, ramshackle town lives A’ida. Her insurgent lover Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A’ida’s letters...

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    From A to X
  • Michelle de Kretser

    The Lost Dog

    Chatto & Windus

    Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th-century India, here is a haunting, layered work that vividly contrasts new cityscapes and their...

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    The Lost Dog
  • Mohammed Hanif

    A Case of Exploding Mangoes

    Jonathan Cape

    This playful and bold debut novel explores the conspiracy theories surrounding the mysterious plane crash that killed General Zia. The...

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    A Case of Exploding Mangoes
  • Joseph O’Neill

    Netherland

    Fourth Estate

    Lost in a country he’d regarded as his new home, Hans sought comfort in a most alien place - the...

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    Netherland
  • Salman Rushdie

    The Enchantress of Florence

    Jonathan Cape

    The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world....

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    The Enchantress of Florence
  • Tom Rob Smith

    Child 44

    Simon & Schuster

    In Stalin’s Soviet Union, millions live in fear. Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideological disloyalty sends...

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    Child 44
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