Booker Prize 2009 : la shortlist

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 shortlist was announced on Tuesday 8 September 2009. Interviews with each of the authors can be found in the Perspective section of the Man Booker Prize website along with audio extracts of each of their titles.

The winner will be announced on Tuesday 6 October 2009.

- A S Byatt : The Children’s Book (Chatto & Windus) - Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes...
- J M Coetzee : Summertime (Harvill Secker) - A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on...
- Adam Foulds : The Quickening Maze (Jonathan Cape) - The Quickening Maze is based on real events and is set in and around the High Beach Asylum in 1840....
- Hilary Mantel : Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate) - Set in England in the 1520s, Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his...
- Simon Mawer : The Glass Room (Little, Brown) - High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a marvel of steel, glass and onyx. Built specially for...
- Sarah Waters : The Little Stranger (Virago) - When Dr Faraday is urgently called to Hundreds Hall, he is both curious and nostalgic. Nearly thirty years before, he had...