The Man Booker Prize 2008

This years winner of the Booker Prize is… Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger Check out the official announcement, or for some really good fun, John Sutherland’s  article in The Guardian on the ten types of Booker winners.

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Booker Prize Shortlist

They’re narrowing down the prize for the best of fiction in 2008. Drumroll please… Aravind Adiga The White Tiger (Atlantic) Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture (Faber and Faber) Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies (John Murray) Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs (Virago) Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency (Fourth Estate) Steve Toltz A Fraction of [...]

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2008 Booker Prize Longlist

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry From A to X by John Berger The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed [...]

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