Man Booker Prize 2009
The Man Booker International Prize, awarded every two years, recognises one writer for their achievement in fiction. This prize was first awarded in 2005.
The winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, announced on Tuesday 6th October was the odds on favourite - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Here are the books and authors that vied for the prize of £50,000
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, Wolf Hall peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.
The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
The Landauer House shines as a marvel of steel, glass and onyx, built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel. It becomes a laboratory from the storm of war, and a place where the broken and ruined find comfort.
Summertime - JM Coetzee
Sometimes heartbreaking, often very funny, Summertime shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task. It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
When Dr Faraday is urgently called to Hundreds Hall, he is both curious and nostalgic. Soon the house begins almost to take on a life of its own, even Dr Faraday's scientific assurances are challenged.
The Children's Book - AS Byatt
This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich and the trenches of the Somme.
The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
The Quickening Maze is based on real events and is set in and around the High Beach Asylum in 1840. The Quickening Maze is a deeply affecting book and work of intense and atmospheric imagination.
