Man Booker longlist and Sunday Times Literary Awards announced

As per the Man Booker website:

The longlist includes:

Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)

Emma Donoghue Room (Pan MacMillan - Picador)

Helen Dunmore The Betrayal (Penguin - Fig Tree)

Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books)

Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)

Andrea Levy The Long Song
(Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review)

Tom McCarthy C (Random House - Jonathan Cape)

David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Hodder & Stoughton - Sceptre)

Lisa Moore February (Random House - Chatto & Windus)

Paul Murray Skippy Dies (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)

Rose Tremain Trespass (Random House - Chatto & Windus)

Christos Tsiolkas The Slap (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)

Alan Warner The Stars in the Bright Sky
(Random House - Jonathan Cape)


(image: The Guardian)
Click here to view the Booker longlist in pictures


Back on home soil the winners of the Sunday Times Fiction Award and the Alan Paton Literary Prize were announced. Congratulations to:

High Low In-Between by Imraan Coovadia (Fiction Award) &
The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law by Albie Sachs (Alan Paton Award)




The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199571796
RRP: R220












High Low In-Between
Publisher: Umuzi
ISBN: 9781415200704
RRP: R200