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Topic History of: Booker shortlist announced Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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JK2006
With incredible efficiency, Waterstones, just down the road for me in Notting Hill Gate, have all 6 finalists on a shelf within an hour of the announcement; so I've just bought them.
JK2006
I'm off to buy them all - have to try to read the lot in the next 4 weeks.
The six books, selected from the Man Booker Prize longlist of 13, are:
Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)
Emma Donoghue Room (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books - Grove Atlantic)
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
Andrea Levy The Long Song (Headline Review -
Headline Publishing Group)