The Man Booker Prize shortlist

 Peter Carey; Parrot and Olivier in America

Emma Donoghue: Room

Damon Galgut: In a Strange Room

Andrea Levy: The Long Song

Tom McCarthy: C

Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question

So far the bookies are favouring The Room - what do you think?

 

 

Senior Bookclub Choice

 The current choice is A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving

You can Listen Again to John Irving talking to James Naughtie about A Prayer for Owen Meany on Radio 4's Bookclub.

John Irving on BBC Radio 4

Supplementary books are:

Andrea Levy: The Long Song - now on the Man Booker Prize shortlist
Marina Lewycka: We Are All Made of Glue
Harry Thompson: This Thing of Darkness
Barbara Demick: Nothing to Envy (Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction)