Man Booker 2008 longlist
The Man Booker Dozen 2008The longlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on Tuesday 29 July 2008.
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....
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...
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...
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...
Netherland
Fourth Estate
Lost in a country he’d regarded as his new home, Hans sought comfort in a most alien place - the...
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....
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...
