The Booker Prize Shortlist 2009! Waste of money, or do you love it?

• A S Byatt
  

  The Children’s Book
  

  Chatto & Windus
  

  
  
  
• J M Coetzee
  

  Summertime
  

  Harvill Secker
  

  
  
   
• Adam Foulds
  

  The Quickening Maze
  

  Jonathan Cape
  

  The Quickening Maze is based on real events and is set in and around the High Beach Asylum in 1840.
  
  
• Hilary Mantel
  

  Wolf Hall
  

  Fourth Estate
  

  Set in England in the 1520s, Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir.
  
  
• Simon Mawer
  

  The Glass Room
  

  Little, Brown
  

  High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a marvel of steel, glass and onyx.
  
  
• Sarah Waters
  

  The Little Stranger
  

  Virago
  

  
  

   
  

Winners to be announced October 6th, 2009. I used to think this a waste of money, but when you think how much footballers get paid....

I'm quite excited to be able to read some of these. In particular J M Coetzee and A S Byatt.  Is there anything here, which really intrigues you? What do you think of the covers, do they grab you by the short and curlies?

Sassy

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