The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary award given to the year's best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom.
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The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize
The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as "a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly."--New York Times Book Review
Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year AwardThe sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn
This Man Booker Prize–winning novel is now a major motion picture.
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends.
WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION
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Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer.
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new.
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another.
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife.
Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award. From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy.
Hailed by the critics and lauded by readers for its riotously funny and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, Vernon God Little was an international sensation when it was first published in 2003 and awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize.
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
$16.95ISBN: 9780375724671Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Vintage - December 4th, 2001“I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.”
$16.95ISBN: 9780385720953Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Anchor - August 28th, 2001From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE$16.00ISBN: 9780140296402Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Books - November 1st, 2000From the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
$15.95ISBN: 9780385494243Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Anchor - November 2nd, 1999The Booker Prize-winning contemporary morality tale—cleverly disguised as a comic novel—from the acclaimed author of Atonement.
$17.00ISBN: 9780812979657Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - December 16th, 2008The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER$16.95ISBN: 9780679766629Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - January 14th, 1997Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts.
$16.00ISBN: 9780142180600Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Plume - December 31st, 2013Set in the closing months of World War I, this towering novel combines poetic intenstiy with gritty realism as it brings Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy to its stunning conclusion.
$19.95ISBN: 9780393327991Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - March 30th, 2009One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's shoes and trying to remember his two-day drinking binge. He gets in a scrap with some soldiers and revives in a jail cell, badly beaten and, he slowly discovers, completely blind.
$17.00ISBN: 9780140233902Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Books - January 1st, 1995Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world
Look for Roddy Doyle’s new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017$17.00ISBN: 9780140233902Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Books - January 1st, 1995Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world
Look for Roddy Doyle’s new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017Email or call for priceISBN: 9780393311143Availability: Hard to FindPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - November 17th, 1993Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies.
$16.95ISBN: 9780385425131Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Anchor - May 1st, 1993In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature.
$16.95ISBN: 9780679735908Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - October 1st, 1991National Bestseller
$16.00ISBN: 9780679731726Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Vintage - September 12th, 1990From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film.
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