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 2009 is as follows. Shortlisted titles in bold.

Author                          Title                                          Publisher

Byatt, AS                      The Children's Book                 Random House - Chatto and Windus

Coetzee, J M               Summertime                            Random House - Harvill Secker

Foulds, Adam              The Quickening Maze              Random House - Jonathan Cape

Hall, Sarah                   How to paint a dead man      Faber and Faber

Harvey, Samantha      The Wilderness                        Random House - Jonathan Cape

Lever, James                Me Cheeta                              HarperCollins - Fourth Estate

Mantel, Hilary              Wolf Hall                                  HarperCollins - Fourth Estate

Mawer, Simon             The Glass Room                       Little, Brown

O'Loughlin, Ed             Not Untrue & Not Unkind        Penguin - Ireland

Scudamore, James      Heliopolis                                 Random House - Harvill Secker

Toibin, Colm                Brooklyn                                  Penguin - Viking

Trevor, William             Love and Summer                   Penguin - Viking

Waters, Sarah              The Little Stranger                    Little, Brown - Virago

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 8th September 2009
Winner announced 6th October 2009

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 35 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.