Booker Prize 2009 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize has been announced.
The shortlisted titles are:
- A S Byatt: The Children’s Book (Random House, Chatto and Windus)
- J M Coetzee: Summertime (Random House, Harvill Secker)
- Adam Foulds: The Quickening Maze (Random House, Jonathan Cape)
- Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate)
- Simon Mawer: The Glass Room (Little, Brown)
- Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger (Little, Brown, Virago)
Wolf Hall is odds-on favourite with the bookmakers.
