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The Man Booker Prize

All of the books on these pages are first editions and first printing

The longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 is as follows. Shortlisted titles in bold.

Author                          Title                                          Publisher
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
Sebastian Barry On Canaan's Side (Faber)
Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail - Profile)
Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
A.D. Miller Snowdrops (Atlantic)
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)

Please use the search facilty for availability of titles or scroll down and click on the link at the bottom of this page. More longlisted titles will be added as they become available. The books shown below are from previous Booker years.

The shortlist will be announced on 6th September 2011
Winner announced 18th October 2011

The Man Booker Prize, formerly known as just the Booker Prize, is recognised as the most prestigious literary award in the UK.

Established in 1969, it provides readers with the opportunity to review the year's best fiction. Often highly controversial, the prize attracts much media attention and high book sales. Many book collectors of modern fiction try to build a complete set of all shortlisted and winning titles.

A longlist is announced in Mid August followed by the shortlist in September and the final award in late October. The prize is given to the best novel in the English Language written by a Commonwealth or Irish citizen and published in the UK.
During its 40 years the prize has been won by some of the most famous contemporary writers such as Salman Rushdie, J M Coetzee, Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro, Graham Swift, Pat Barker, A S Byatt, Michael Ondaatje, Iris Murdoch, VS Naipaul and Margaret Atwood. Only J M Coetzee and Peter Carey have won it twice. The winner in 2003 was D B C Pierre for 'Vernon God Little'.

Firsts in Print offers a wide range of Booker titles and would be pleased to help you fill the gaps in your collection.

Click here for 2005 longlisted books. Previous years' Booker Prize books are available by clicking here.


The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes

Published: Cape, 2011

Fine in fine dustwrapper. The story of one man coming to terms with his past. Winner of the Man Booker prize. Shortlisted for the Costa Fiction prize.

Price: £ 30.00

The Sense of an Ending


The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes

Published: Cape, 2011

Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The story of one man coming to terms with his past. Winner of the Man Booker prize. Now reprinted but this is a true first printing. Signed first print copies are becoming very scarce. Now also shortlisted for the Costa fiction award.

Price: £ 85.00

The Sense of an Ending


Jamrach's Menagerie
by Carol Birch

Published: Canongate, 2011

Signed and dated 17/10/11 by the author - the day before the Man Booker announcement.Fine illustrated card wrappers as issued - no hardback edition. Described as a 'Salty historical adventure 'set in 1857 - a story of an explorer and entrepreneur and a collector of strange creatures. Well reviewed and one to watch. Longlisted for the Orange Prize. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Now scarce. Comes with special Man Booker bookmark for the 2011 prize plus a small Man Booker booklet 'Fiction at its finest' - full of details about all aspects of the Man Booker prize - an excellent reference guide.

Price: £ 45.00

Jamrach


Jamrach's Menagerie
by Carol Birch

Published: Canongate, 2011

Fine card wrappers as issued. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 22.00

Jamrach


The Sisters Brothers
by Patrick de Witt

Published: Granta, 2011

Signed and dated by the author (Oct 17 2011) by the author. Fine illustrated card wrappers - no UK hardback edition. Set in the 1850's - a black comedy about two western assassins.. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Comes with special Man Booker bookmark for the 2011 prize plus a small Man Booker booklet 'Fiction at its finest' - full of details about all aspects of the Man Booker prize - an excellent reference guide.

Price: £ 45.00

The Sisters Brothers


Half Blood Blues
by Esi Edugyan

Published: Serpent\'s Tail, 2011

Signed and dated by the author (17/10/11 the day before the Man Booker announcement) Fine illustrated card wrappers as issued. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Comes with special Man Booker bookmark for the 2011 prize plus a small Man Booker booklet 'Fiction at its finest' - full of details about all aspects of the Man Booker prize - an excellent reference guide.

Price: £ 45.00

Half Blood Blues


Pigeon English
by Stephen Kelman

Published: Bloomsbury, 2011

Signed and dated by the author using his full name (dated 17th October 2011 the day before the Man Booker announcement). Fine card wrappers as issued - no hardback edition. Debut novel which comes with much advance publicity. The story of Harri, newly arrived in the UK from Ghana. One to watch. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Comes with special Man Booker bookmark for the 2011 prize plus a small Man Booker booklet 'Fiction at its finest' - full of details about all aspects of the Man Booker prize - an excellent reference guide.

Price: £ 48.00

Pigeon English


Pigeon English
by Stephen Kelman

Published: Bloomsbury, 2011

Signed by the author (using just his first name - a practice he used just after the book was published and is consequently an earlier signature). Fine card wrappers with flaps as issued - no hardback edition. The story of an eleven year old boy newly arrived in the UK from Ghana. Well reviewed and likely to be coming something of a classic. Debut novel. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 40.00

Pigeon English

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