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Man Booker Prize 2011 Winner Announced
The winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize is Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending. Backed as the favourite amongst a fascinating shortlist, Barnes’ short novel is concerned with the fickleness and mutability of memory. Very similar in style and technique to Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, this little gem is full of big ideas and is a worthy winner.
The shortlist for the world’s most prestigious literary prize proved controversial in that two of the original favourites to win the prize - Sebastian Barry’s On Canaan’s Side and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child were left off the final six titles in the running for the £50,000 Award. Two debut novelists were included — AD Miller and Stephen Kelman — along with the eventual winner.
This was Barnes' fourth time on the shortlist so he is no stranger to the stress and anxiety of waiting for the final announcement – he has said that the period of expectation before finding out the final result "usually produces some psychosomatic malady – a throbbing boil, a burning wire of neuralgia, the prod of gout". His previous appearances were Flaubert's Parrot, England, England and Arthur & George.
2010's winner was 'The Finkler Question' by Howard Jacobson. A scorching story of exclusion and belonging, justice and love, ageing, wisdom and humanity, it has gone on to become one of our bestselling titles and currently features in our 3 for 2 promotion.
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Snowdrops
A D MillerPaperback · 01 Sep 2011 · €10.00
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, Snowdrops is THE debut of 2011: A stunning novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption.
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Pigeon English
Stephen KelmanPaperback · 07 Mar 2011 · €17.35
Our Price: €13.99Deeply funny, moving, idiosyncratic and unforgettable, Pigeon English introduces a major new literary talent
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The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWittPaperback · 05 May 2011 · €17.35
Our Price: €13.99From the author of the acclaimed ABLUTIONS, this dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat Western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother, on the trail of a man named Warm -
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Half Blood Blues
Esi EdugyanPaperback · 02 Jun 2011 · €14.70
Our Price: €11.99The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black. Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin.
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The Sense of an Ending
Julian BarnesHardback · 04 Aug 2011 · €17.35
Our Price: €13.99Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life.