The Man Booker Prize

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

2008 Man Booker Prize - Shortlist announced  - books in bold type.



The longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 is as follows:

Aravind Adiga 'The White Tiger'
Gaynor Arnold 'Girl in a Blue Dress'
Sebastian Barry 'The Secret Scripture'
John Berger 'From A to X'
Michelle de Kretser 'The Lost Dog'
Amitav Ghosh 'Sea of Poppies
Linda Grant 'The Clothes on their backs'
Mohammed Hanif 'A Case of Exploding Mangoes'
Philip Hensher 'The Northern Clemency'
Joseph O'Neill 'Netherland'
Salman Rushdie 'The Enchantress of Florence'
Tom Rob Smith 'Child 44'
Steve Toltz 'A Fraction of the whole'


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 9th September 2008
Winner announced 14th October 2008

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.