The Man Booker Prize

This page contains the longlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Click here for the shortlisted books. Click here for previous years' Booker Prize books

How To Paint a Dead Man
by Sarah Hall

Published: Faber, 2009

Fine illustrated card wrappers as issued. From the author of previously Man Booker shortlisted 'The Electric Michelangelo'. Longlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 14.00

The Wilderness
by Samantha Harvey

Published: Cape, 2009

Signed, dated and lined by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A debut novel about a sixty year old man with Alzheimer's. Shortlisted for the Orange prize and now longlisted for the Man Booker prize. Now scarce as a first printing hardback.

Price: £ 45.00

Me Cheeta
by James Lever

Published: 4th Estate, 2008

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Alleged 'autobiography' of Cheeta the Hollywood chimpanzee who starred in the Tarzan films. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Surprise Man Booker longlisted title but don't be deterred as this was extremely well reviewed when it was published. It may look like the joker in the pack but it may well do better than the longlist.

Price: £ 25.00

Not Untrue & Not Unkind
by Ed O'Loughlin

Published: Penguin, 2009

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Debut novel. A story of friendship, rivalry and guilt among a group of journalists and photographers covering Africa's wars. Longlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 24.00

Heliopolis
by James Scudamore

Published: Harvill Secker, 2009

Fine card wrappers as issued - a paperback original. A comic rags-to-riches tale. Longlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 22.00

Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin

Published: Viking, 2009

Fine in fine dustwrapper. A novel which will undoubtedly feasture in this year's prize lists. Already reviewed this is reckoned to be one of the author's best novels. Rapidly reprinted. Winner of the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 22.00

Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin

Published: Viking, 2009

Signed and dated by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Likely to be one of the books of the year and potential prize winner. An Irish woman leaves home to find work in America but tragic news summons her back to Ireland and she finds herself facing a terrible choice. Now longlisted for the Man Booker prize. Winner of the Costa novel award

Price: £ 50.00

Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin

Published: Tuskar Rock Press, 2009

Signed Limited Edition. One of 75 copies bound in cloth and housed in a slipcase. Signed, numbered and dated (pre-publication day) by the author. This is copy 74. Longlisted for the Man Booker prize. A handsome edition. Winner of the Costa novel award

Price: £ 150.00

Love and Summer
by William Trevor

Published: Viking, 2009

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Longlisted for the Man Booker prize and quickly into a reprint. This is a true first. Well reviewed.

Price: £ 26.00

Love and Summer
by William Trevor

Published: Viking, 2009

Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Very scarce signed. Longlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 85.00

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