Friday 30 December 2016

Booker-McConnell Prize 1974

Winners
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
Holiday by Stanley Middleton

Shortlist
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
In Their Wisdom by CP Snow


Booker-McConnell Prize 1975

Winner
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Shortlist
Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally


Booker-McConnell Prize 1976

Winner
Saville by David Storey

Shortlist
An Instant in the Wind by André Brink
Rising by RC Hutchinson
The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore
King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor


Booker-McConnell Prize 1977

Winner
Staying On by Paul Scott

Shortlist
Peter Smart’s Confessions by Paul Bailey
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
Shadows on our Skin by Jennifer Johnston
The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym


Wednesday 28 December 2016

Booker-McConnell Prize 1978

Winner
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Shortlist
Jake’s Thing by Kingsley Amis
Rumours of Rain by André Brink
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam
A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens


Booker-McConnell Prize 1979

Winner
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

Shortlist
Confederates by Thomas Keneally
A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
Joseph by Julian Rathbone
Praxis by Fay Weldon


Booker-McConnell Prize 1980

Winner
Rites of Passage by William Golding

Shortlist
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
A Month in the Country by JL Carr
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Who Do You Think You Are? (The Beggar Maid) by Alice Munro
No Country for Young Men by Julia O'Faolain
Pascali’s Island by Barry Unsworth


Booker-McConnell Prize 1981

Winner
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Shortlist
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
The White Hotel by DM Thomas


Booker-McConnell Prize 1982

Winner
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

Shortlist
Silence among the Weapons by John Arden
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
Constance or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell
The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo


Booker-McConnell Prize 1983

Winner
Life and Times of Michael K by JM Coetzee

Shortlist
Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury
Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller
The Illusionist by Anita Mason
Shame by Salman Rushdie
Waterland by Graham Swift


Booker-McConnell Prize 1984

Winner
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

Shortlist
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
In Custody by Anita Desai
According to Mark by Penelope Lively
Small World by David Lodge


Booker-McConnell Prize 1985

Winner
The Bone People by Keri Hulme

Shortlist
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by JL Carr
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris
The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch


Booker-McConnell Prize 1986

Winner
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

Shortlist
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Gabriel’s Lament by Paul Bailey
What’s Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo


Thursday 22 December 2016

Booker-McConnell Prize 1987

Winner
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Shortlist
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
Circles of Deceit by Nina Bawden
The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch


Booker-McConnell Prize 1988

Winner
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Shortlist
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
Nice Work by David Lodge
Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Lost Father by Marina Warner


Booker-McConnell Prize 1989

Winner
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Shortlist
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford
A Disaffection by James Kelman
Restoration by Rose Tremain


Booker-McConnell Prize 1990

Winner
Possession by AS Byatt

Shortlist
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
Amongst Women by John McGahern
Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler


Wednesday 21 December 2016

Booker-McConnell Prize 1991

Winner
The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Shortlist
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
The Van by Roddy Doyle
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo
Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives) by William Trevor


Booker-McConnell Prize 1992

Winners
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

Shortlist
Serenity House by Christopher Hope
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Daughters of the House by Michèle Roberts


Booker-McConnell Prize 1993

Winner
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

Shortlist
Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields


Booker-McConnell Prize 1994

Winner
How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman

Shortlist
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh


Booker-McConnell Prize 1995

Winner
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

Shortlist
In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
The Riders by Tim Winton


Booker-McConnell Prize 1996

Winner
Last Orders by Graham Swift

Shortlist
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
Reading In the Dark by Seamus Deane
The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Booker-McConnell Prize 1997

Winner
The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Shortlist
Quarantine by Jim Crace
The Underground Man by Mick Jackson
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Europa by Tim Parks
The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St John

Booker-McConnell Prize 1998

Winner
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

Shortlist
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
England, England by Julian Barnes
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

Booker-McConnell Prize 1999

Winner
Disgrace by JM Coetzee

Shortlist
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin

Booker-McConnell Prize 2000

Winner
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Shortlist
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty

Booker-McConnell Prize 2001

Winner
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

Shortlist
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Oxygen by Andrew Miller
number9dream by David Mitchell
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Hotel World by Ali Smith

Longlist
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
If the Invader Comes by Derek Beaven
A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
Shamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson
The Element of Water by Stevie Davies
Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvi Jagendorf
Translated Accounts by James Kelman
The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee
Fairness by Ferdinand Mount
Half a Life by VS Naipaul
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner

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Man Booker Prize 2002

Winner
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Shortlist
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Unless by Carol Shields
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Dirt Music by Tim Winton

Longlist
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas by Dannie Abse
Shroud by John Banville
Critical Injuries by Joan Barfoot
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner
Peacetime by Robert Edric
Spies by Michael Frayn
Still Here by Linda Grant
The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
Who’s Sorry Now? by Howard Jacobson
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Dorian by Will Self
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
To The Last City by Colin Thubron

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Man Booker Prize 2003

Winner
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

Shortlist
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Notes on a Scandal by Zöe Heller
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall

Longlist
Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
Turn Again Home by Carol Birch
Crossing the Lines by Melvyn Bragg
Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee
The Taxi Driver’s Daughter by Julia Darling
Schopenhauer’s Telescope by Gerard Donovan
The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Nick of Time by Francis King
Heligoland by Shena Mackay
Jazz etc by John Murray
Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson
Judge Savage by Tim Parks
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido

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Man Booker Prize 2004

Winner
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

Shortlist
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Master by Colm Toibin
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward

Longlist
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker
The Island Walkers by John Bemrose
Havoc, in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Always the Sun by Neil Cross
Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
A Blade of Grass by Lewis Desoto
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
The Honeymoon by Justin Haythe
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
The Unnumbered by Sam North
Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
Cherry by Matt Thorne

Man Booker Prize 2005

Winner
The Sea by John Banville

Shortlist
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Accidental by Ali Smith
On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Longlist
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
Slow Man by JM Coetzee
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
All For Love by Dan Jacobson
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The People’s Act of Love by James Meek
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
This Is The Country by William Wall

Man Booker Prize 2006

Winner
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Shortlist
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland
In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

Longlist
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
Seven Lies by James Lasdun
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth

Man Booker Prize 2007

Winner
The Gathering by Anne Enright

Shortlist
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Animal’s People by Indra Sinha

Longlist
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
Self Help by Edward Docx
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
Consolation by Michael Redhill

Man Booker Prize 2008

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

Man Booker Prize 2009

Winner
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Shortlist
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt
Summertime by JM Coetzee
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Longlist
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
Me Cheeta by James Lever
Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
Heliopolis by James Scudamore
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Love and Summer by William Trevor

Man Booker Prize 2010

Winner
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

Shortlist
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Room by Emma Donoghue
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
C by Tom McCarthy

Longlist
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Trespass by Rose Tremain
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Man Booker Prize 2011

Winner
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Shortlist
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
Snowdrops by AD Miller

Longlist
On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
Far to Go by Alison Pick
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
Derby Day by DJ Taylor


Man Booker Prize 2012

Winner
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Shortlist
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
Umbrella by Will Self
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

Longlist
The Yips by Nicola Barker
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
Philida by André Brink
Skios by Michael Frayn
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Communion Town by Sam Thompson


Man Booker Prize 2013

Winner
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Shortlist
We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo
Harvest by Jim Crace
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin

Longlist
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris
The Kills by Richard House
Unexploded by Alison MacLeod
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan