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2010 Man Booker Prize Longlist Announced

The 13 books for the 2010 Man Booker Prize were announced today, forming the "longlist" of the prestigious prize that awards a "full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published in the United Kingdom for the first time in the year of the prize."
 
Of the 13 titles, we currently have available:
 

Peter Carey, Parrot and Oliver in America

David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Zacob de Zoet  

Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap

 

We have on order, US Editions:

 

Emma Donoghue, Room 

Andrea Levy, The Long Song

Tom McCarthy,

Lisa Moore, February

Paul Murray, Skippy Die

 

We have on order, Canadian Editions:

 

Helen Dunmore, The Betrayal

Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room

Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

Rose Tremain, Trespass
 
We are currently unable to obtain:

 

Alan Warner, The Stars in the Bright Sky

 

The Shortlist is due to be announced on the 7th of September. For more about the prize and the nominees, please visit http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1427.

 

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