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Booker Prize shortlist announced

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By Wed 09-Sep-09 00:09:57 Add message | Report | Contact poster
The titles are:

The Children's Book by A S Byatt (Random House, Chatto and Windus)

Summertime by J M Coetzee (Random House, Harvill Secker)

The Quickening Maze by Adam Fould (Random House, Jonathan Cape)

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate)

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (Little, Brown)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Little, Brown, Virago)

Have you read any of them, do you want to, do you have any opinions on them or on books that have been left off the shortlist from the longlist? Who would you like to see win, and why?
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 03-Nov-09 23:52:22
Bit late to this thread - just to say that Wolf Hall is an entirely different proposition to Beyond Black (the latter - I didn't manage to complete either)
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 14-Sep-09 19:31:44
I love Coetze, thought Disgrace was fantastic. Found Sarah Waters 'Affinity' a bit of slog but may try again with this one. Haven't read Hilary Mantel for years but Fludd sticks in my mind...must have read this about 20 years ago and thought it was fab!
No Indian authors or settings this year which disappoints me. Why on earth has Rohinton Mistry never won the Booker?? (Now someone will put me right and tell me he has!!) I must try to get through one of them before the winner is announced.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 14-Sep-09 18:41:20
Jux - phew. I was beginning to think it was just me.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 14-Sep-09 16:03:38
Oooh, THAT Hilary Mantell. Hated Beyond Black, thought it an utter waste of words and altogether a book without point, sorry. Won't be reading hers.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 14-Sep-09 14:15:45
I really really really really want to read the Byatt - but not until it's out in paperback. Hardbacks are too heavy for me to hold.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 14-Sep-09 14:03:02
Janeite, am sorry you had such a low opinion of Beyond Black, I thought it was brilliant, and have hugely enjoyed other fiction by H Mantel. Hoping to read Wolf Hall soon. I'm gunning for her or Sarah Waters for Booker.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Mon 14-Sep-09 10:49:19
We're doing the Booker shortlist for the next Mumsnet Bookclub - the page and poll will be up a week today, Monday 21 Sep. I'll post here again when its live.

The chat will be on Tuesday 20 Oct, 8-9.30pm. Hope you can join us...
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 10-Sep-09 17:33:32
Have just googled: it was called 'Beyond Black' - but I see that she comes from Derbyshire, so I will forgive her a little.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 10-Sep-09 17:17:17
grin

No idea. I've only read the french revolution one - A Place of Greater Safety, and an early novel about a convent, I think it was, or a convent school.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Thu 10-Sep-09 17:15:39
Pielight - I teach English so have read lots of talentless tripe - and lots of bloody good stuff too!

Couldn't get on with Hilary M at all - it was the one about the fat medium - forget what it was called.

I HAVE got the right person haven't I? blush
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