Press Release

Two Hachette Titles Named on Man Booker Shortlist09/09/2008

On Tuesday 9th September the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize was announced. We are very proud to publish two of the novels on the list: Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (John Murray) and Linda Grant's The Clothes on Their Backs (Virago).  The prize is the most prestigious awarded in the UK for fiction, so to have one book on the shortlist is a cause for celebration, and to have two is doubly so.   

The full shortlist is as follows:

 

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic)

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber)

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray)

The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant (Virago)

The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (Fourth Estate)

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton)

 

 

The winner of the prize will be announced on 14th October.