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Mantel Wins Booker

Many readers will be delighted to see the sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's Bring Up The Bodies, announced as the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize. In a year that saw the publication of novels by some serious literary heavy hitters - John Banville, Peter Carey, Ian McEwan and Zadie Smith amongst others – the judges’ shortlist was refreshingly unconventional, featuring some excellent, unexpected choices.


  • The Garden of Evening Mists

    The Garden of Evening Mists
    Tan Twan Eng

    Paperback · 11 Feb 2012 · €17.35

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012. Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child.

  • The Lighthouse

    The Lighthouse
    Alison Moore

    Paperback · 15 Aug 2012 · €11.99

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    Futh, middle-aged and newly separated, is on his way to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. When he finds himself treated with hostility by the hotel landlord, he does not understand why. Nor does he anticipate that things he "hasn't" done will have such devastating repercussions.

  • Umbrella

    Umbrella
    Will Self

    Paperback · 16 Aug 2012 · €16.00

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012 The major new novel by the author of Great Apes, How the Dead Live and The Book of Dave

  • Narcopolis

    Narcopolis
    Jeet Thayil

    Paperback · 02 Feb 2012 · €17.35

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    Portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, this title is a journey into a sprawling underworld.