The Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Shortlist to be announced Thursday 14th Sept 2006
Winner to be announced Tuesday 10th October

I have...

The brown book is more of a grey/sepia!
' So many ways to begin' by Jon Mcgregor
Cathy

The Booker long list

Peter Carey, Theft: A Love Story (Faber & Faber) . . . .Jaani
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton)
Robert Edric, Gathering the Water (Doubleday)
Nadine Gordimer, Get a Life (Bloomsbury)
Kate Grenville, The Secret River (Canongate)
M.J Hyland, Carry Me Down (Canongate)
Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights (Jonathan Cape). . . . . . .Jane
James Lasdun, Seven Lies
Mary Lawson, The Other Side of the Bridge (Chatto & Windus)
Jan McGregor, So Many Ways to Begin (Blooms . . . . . Cathy
Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (Viking) . . . . . . . . Hilary
Claire Messud, The Emperor’s Children (Picador)
David Mitchell, Black Swan Green (Sceptre) . . . . . . . . . . . Mary
Naeem Murr, The Perfect Man (William Heinemann)
Andrew O’Hagan, Be Near Me (Faber & Faber)
James Robertson, The Testament of Gideon Mack (Hamish Hamilton)
Edward St Aubyn, Mother’s Milk (Picador)
Barry Unsworth, The Ruby in her Navel (Hamish Hamilton) Sarah Waters, The Night Watch (Virago) . . . . . . . .Hilary

New Books!

Thankyou
Hilary for buying the new books and getting them to the book club for Wednesday. I hope you are having a good time with Inci and James, say hello from me and John. Cathy
Sarah! Just in case you have your computor set up and chance to look in on us, good luck with thework we are thinking of you.Cathy