Man Booker 2009 shortlist

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 shortlist was announced on Tuesday 8 September 2009. Interviews with each of the authors can be found in the Perspective section along with audio extracts of each of their titles at the main Man Booker Prize website.
The winner will be announced on Tuesday 6 October 2009.
For the second consecutive year, a teaser section of each of the titles is available to download to your mobile phone in both audio and text versions.

A S Byatt

The Children’s Book

Chatto & Windus

Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes...
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J M Coetzee

Summertime

Harvill Secker

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on...

Adam Foulds

The Quickening Maze

Jonathan Cape

The Quickening Maze is based on real events and is set in and around the High Beach Asylum in 1840....
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Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

Fourth Estate

Set in England in the 1520s, Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his...

Simon Mawer

The Glass Room

Little, Brown

High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a marvel of steel, glass and onyx. Built specially for...

Sarah Waters

The Little Stranger

Virago

When Dr Faraday is urgently called to Hundreds Hall, he is both curious and nostalgic. Nearly thirty years before, he had...

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Read more at the Man Booker Prize site: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/thisyear/shortlist.

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still thinking about online narratives. Well, I've spent the past few years thinking about it but now I'm going in a slightly different direction. I'm thinking about wiki fictions, blog stories, youtube stories and facebook storytelling. I guess it's narratives 2.0? But I'm also researching transdisciplinarity in an academic context and editing two issues of the IOCT journal before steering the emergence of a fully-peer-reviewed journal (tentatively) titled: Transdisciplinary Studies in Creative Technologies. I'm running the Digital Cultures module for the IOCT Master's, giving guest lectures for the Creative Writing and New Media Master's as well as part-time lecturing on new media and digital lit. I'm involved with the Narrative Laboratory project and this year's focus in on mapping social networking. I also contribute as an author to Transliteracy.com, a collaboratively written blog. I'm very interested in how the online environment and its particular affordances are affecting education. To that end I'm involved in a project linking the Inanimate Alice stories to digital literacy. Want to be involved? Check this out.