Man Booker long list
Lucky for one in October – thirteen titles have made the long list of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Teachers looking for literary fiction to explore with senior students might like to investigate some of these:
Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
Gaynor Arnold – Girl in a Blue Dress
Sebastian Barry – The Secret Scripture
John Berger – From A to X
Michelle de Kretser - The Lost Dog
Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies
Linda Grant - The Clothes on Their Backs
Mohammed Hanif - A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Philip Hensher – The Northern Clemency
Joseph O’Neill - Netherland
Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence
Tom Rob Smith - Child 44
Steve Toltz – A Fraction of the Whole
Michelle de Kretser and Steve Toltz are two Australian representatives.
These will be pared to a short list on 9 September and the winner announced on 14 October.
None of the long listed books has yet been reviewed in Fiction Focus.
