The Man Booker Prize

This page contains the longlist for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Click here for the shortlisted books. Click here for previous years' Booker Prize books

Slow Man
by J.M. Coetzee

Published: Secker &Warburg, 2005

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Latest from the double Booker winning author. The story about Paul Rayment who is on the threshold of old age and who then has a calamitous cycling accident . Also has links with the author's previous novel 'Elizabeth Costello'. Booker longlisted.The author was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003.

Price: £ 16.99

In the Fold
by Rachel Cusk

Published: Faber, 2005

Fine card wrappers in fine dustwrapper. Michael finds that the so-called bohemian family he once so admired is riven by jealousy and deceit. Booker longlisted.

Price: £ 10.99

The Welsh Girl
by Peter Ho Davies

Published: Sphere, 2007

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Debut novel and one to watch. Booker longlisted.

Price: £ 15.00

The Gift of Rain
by Tan Twan Eng

Published: Myrmidon, 2007

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Man Booker Prize longlisted. The less common hardback edition.

Price: £ 24.00

Get A Life
by Nadine Gordimer

Published: Bloomsbury, 2005

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Longlisted for the Man Booker prize and surprisingly quite difficult to find as a first edition.

Price: £ 18.00

All for Love
by Dan Jacobson

Published: Hamish Hamilton, 2005

Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Booker longlisted. Scarce signed.

Price: £ 45.00

All for Love
by Dan Jacobson

Published: Hamish Hamilton, 2005

Fine in Fine dustwrapper. An extremely well reviewed novel which moves between historical fact and fiction - a love story about the princess Louise, daughter of King Leopold 11 of the Belgians, her lover Second Lieutenant Geza Mattachich and a canteen worker Maria Stoger. Booker longlisted.

Price: £ 25.00

Kalooki Nights
by Howard Jacobson

Published: Cape, 2006

Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author's latest novel which is getting excellent reviews and now longlisted for the Booker - already scarce and into several reprints.

Price: £ 45.00

Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones

Published: John Murray, 2007

Fine in fine dustwrapper. This book recently won the Commonwealth prize for fiction and is one to watch. Set on a South Pacific Island in the 1990's this is a story about the power of fiction. Extremely well reviewed. Buy it now while it is still in a first printing. Booker shortisted.

Price: £ 60.00

Gifted
by Nikita Lalwani

Published: Penguin Viking, 2007

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

Price: £ 28.00

Gifted
by Nikita Lalwani

Published: Penguin Viking, 2007

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Man Booker longlisted.

Price: £ 22.00

The Other side of the Bridge
by Mary Lawson

Published: Chatto & Windus, 2006

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Second novel from the author of 'Crow Lake'. Longlisted for the Man Booker Proze - a story of two brothers and two generations in the small Canadian town of Struan.

Price: £ 12.99

A Short History of Tactors in Ukrainian
by Marina Lewycka

Published: Viking, 2005

Signed by the author. Proof copy. Fine illustrated proof wrappers. Shortlisted for the Orange prize and onglisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 45.00

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
by Marina Lewycka

Published: Penguin Viking, 2005

Fine in Fine dustwrapper. A debut novel that has all the signs of being very ,very successful. A novel about families and in particular the story of the romance between an 86 year old widower (who is writing a history of tractors in Ukrainian) and a 36 year old Ukrainian blonde against whom two daughters unite. Already into several reprints - this is a true first printing, as are all the books on this website. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize

Price: £ 18.00

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
by Marina Lewycka

Published: Penguin Viking, 2005

SIGNED by the author. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. A debut novel that has all the signs of being very ,very successful. A novel about families and in particular the story of the romance between an 86 year old widower (who is writing a history of tractors in Ukrainian) and a 36 year old Ukrainian blonde against whom two daughters unite. Already into several reprints - this is a true first printing, as are all the books on this website. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

Price: £ 25.00

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