Man Booker 2008 shortlist
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2008The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 shortlist was announced on Tuesday 9 September 2008. Video and audio interviews with each of the shortlisted authors are available on the Man Booker site.
The winner was announced on Tuesday 14 October 2008.
For the first time in the history of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, a teaser section of each of the shortlisted titles is available to download to your mobile phone in both audio and text versions.
UK visitors text MBP to 60300 or if you are an international phone user, type gospoken.com/a/mbp08 into your phone web browser.
The Secret Scripture
Faber & Faber
Told through the journals of Roseanne McNulty and her psychiatrist Dr Grene, the story that emerges - of Roseanne’s family...
Sea of Poppies
John Murray
In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt...
The Clothes on Their Backs
Virago
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from...
The Northern Clemency
Fourth Estate
Set in Sheffield, The Northern Clemency charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children;...
A Fraction of the Whole
Hamish Hamilton
As he recollects the events that led to his father’s demise, Jasper recounts a boyhood of outrageous schemes and shocking...
