The Man Booker Prize

The Booker Prize 2008
The winner of this year's Man Booker Prize will be announced on 14 October. Information about the timetable is available on the Man Booker Prize website.
Best of the Booker Prize
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Booker Prize, six authors were in the running to win a one-off award ‘The Best of the Booker Prize'.
The winner was Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children'.
The short listed titles were:
- Pat Barker's The Ghost Road
- Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda
- JM Coetzee's Disgrace
- JG Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur
- Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist
- Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
(you may click on a title to see its availability on our catalogue).
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