A huge congratulations to Australia’s Richard Flanagan who has made the Man Booker shortlist for 2014 with his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Shame that I bought my friend a copy for his birthday and didn’t buy one for myself at the time. The reading pile keeps growing!
The shortlist of six, taken from a longlist
of 13, is:
of 13, is:
Joshua Ferris (US) To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Viking)
Richard Flanagan (Australian) The Narrow Road to the Deep North
(Chatto & Windus)
(Chatto & Windus)
Karen Joy Fowler (US) We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Serpent’s Tail)
Howard Jacobson (British) J (Jonathan Cape)
Neel Mukherjee (British) The Lives of Others (Chatto &
Windus)
Windus)
Ali Smith (British) How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton)
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