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After fiercely contested and controversial long and shortlist stages, the winner of the 'best' prize in literature was announced on 18 October. Find out more about all the longlisted titles in this special section.
Featured Books
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2011.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy UK Author of the Year Award 2011.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2011.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2011
Snowdrops A.D. Miller
One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy New Writer of the Year Award 2011.
January 2011 Debut of the Month.
Shortlisted... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
Jamrach's Menagerie Carol Birch
One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy UK Author of the Year Award 2011.
A Richard and Judy Autumn Read 2011.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
Half-blood Blues Esi Edugyan
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.
Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the
burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don't tell your
story, someone else might tell it for you. And they just might tell it... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2011
The Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.
Told in deWitt's darkly comic and arresting style, THE SISTERS BROTHERS
is the kind of Western the Coen Brothers might write - stark, unsettling
and with a keen eye for the perversity of human... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
On Canaan's Side Sebastian Barry
Shortlisted for the Galaxy International Author of the Year Award 2011.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.
August 2011 Book of the Month.
Getting a copy of a new novel from award-winning Sebastian... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2011
Pigeon English Stephen Kelman
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy New Writer of the Year Award 2011.
Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011.
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011.
A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2011
A Cupboard Full of Coats Yvvette Edwards
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.
Narrated with a distinct and fiery spice, Jinx and Lemon must find their own paths to redemption in this stunning debut novel in which over the course of one weekend they strip away the... Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2011
The Stranger's Child Alan Hollinghurst
Winner of the Galaxy UK Author of the Year Award 2011.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.
July 2011 Book of the Month.
This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2011
Far to Go Alison Pick
Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent, secular Jews, whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the German forces in Czechoslovakia. Desperate to avoid deportation, the Bauers flee to Prague with their six-year-old son, Pepik, and his beloved... Format: Hardback - Released: //--
Derby Day D. J. Taylor
As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs - high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and acrobats, punters and thieves. Whole families stream along... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/06/2011
The Last Hundred Days Patrick McGuinness
The socialist state is in crisis, the shops are empty and old Bucharest vanishes daily under the onslaught of Ceaucescu's demolition gangs. Paranoia is pervasive and secret service men lurk in the shadows. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2011
The Testament of Jessie Lamb Jane Rogers
Jessie Lamb is an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times: as her world collapses, her idealism and courage drive her towards the ultimate act of heroism. If the human race is to survive, it's up to her. Set just a... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/02/2011
The 2011 Man Booker Prize was won by Julian Barnes for his novel The Sense of an Ending.
Dame Stella Rimmington, who chaired the jury, said the book has "the markings of a classic of English Literature. It is exquisitely written, subtly plotted and reveals new depths with each readings".
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction represents some of the very best in contemporary fiction.
The 13 books on the longlist included: one former Man Booker Prize winner; two previously shortlisted writers and one longlisted author; four first time novelists and three Canadian writers. The list also includes three new publishers to the prize - Oneworld, Sandstone Press and Seren Books.
The titles were chosen by a panel of five judges chaired by author and former Director-General of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington.
The Man Booker Prize 2011 full Longlist was as follows:
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House) Stephen Kelman Pigeon English (Bloomsbury) Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books) Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta) Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail - Profile) A.D. Miller Snowdrops (Atlantic) Sebastian Barry On Canaan's Side (Faber) Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld) Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan) Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books) Alison Pick Far to Go (Headline Review) Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press) D.J. Taylor Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House)
The chair of judges, Dame Stella Rimington, said:
'We were delighted by the quality and breadth of our longlist, which
emerged from an impassioned discussion. The list ranges from the Wild
West to multi-ethnic London via post-Cold War Moscow and Bucharest, and
includes four first novels.'
The winner received £50,000 and each of the six shortlisted authors,
including the winner, will receive £2,500 and a designer bound edition
of their book.
The judges for the 2011 Prize were writer and journalist, Matthew
d'Ancona; author, Susan Hill; author and politician, Chris Mullin and
Head of Books at the Daily Telegraph, Gaby Wood. Dame Stella Rimington was the Chair.
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