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Just Books CLC “Booker Prize” Collection: For the related biennial prize given to an author of any nationality, see Man Booker International Prize. Man Booker Prize Awarded for Best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations. The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968; it became commonly known as the "Booker Prize" or simply "the Booker." Check out JustBooks online store to rent the book: www.justbooksclc.com
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“Booker Prize” – A prestigious award
About “Booker Prize”
For the related biennial prize given to an author of any nationality, see Man Booker International Prize.Man Booker Prize Awarded for Best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations.The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968; it became commonly known as the "Booker Prize" or simply "the Booker."
Heat and DustRuth Prawer Jhabwala
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Award winning year : 1975
Set in India, Heat and Dust is the story of Olivia, a beautiful, spoiled, bored English colonial wife in the 1920s who is drawn inexorably into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in plots and intrigues.
Life and times of Michael K Coetzee
Award winning year : 1983
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies.
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The remains of the day Kazuo Ishuguro
Award winning year : 1989
An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper.
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Possession Byatt
Award winning year : 1990
'Byatt has contrived a masterly ending to a fine work; Intelligent, Ingenious and humane, Possession bids fair to be looked back upon as one of the most memorable novels of the 1990s' times literary supplement
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English Patient Michael Ondatje
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Award winning year : 1992
Now a multi Oscar-winning film, this is a tale of love and confusion set at end of the World War II, following a small group of shell-shocked characters thrown together in an Italian villa.
Paddy clarke ha ha ha Roddy Doyle
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Award winning year : 1993
Paddy Clarke is ten years old and breathless with discovery. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, this book is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.
God of small things Arundhati Roy
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Award winning year : 1997
Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Two volumes of her non-fiction writing,
Amsterdam Ian Mcewan
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Award winning year : 1998
Two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Holliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer.
Disgrace J. M. Coetzee
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Award winning year : 1999
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students.
The blind Assasin Margaret Atwood
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Award winning year : 2000
As Iris Chase Griffen, the sole surviving descendant of a once distinguished Toronto family, recalls the events of her life and the pivotal death of her sister Laura in 1945, we simultaneously read Laura's posthumously published novel, 'The Blind Assassin'.
Life of pi Yann Martel
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Award winning year : 2002
Piscine Molitor Patel, Otherwise Known As Pi, Lives In Pondicherry, Where His Father Runs And Owns The City's Zoo. When He Is Sixteen, His Parents Decide To Emigrate To Canada, Taking Their Large Family With Them, But Tragedy Strikes When The Cargo Ship Carrying Them Sinks During A Terrible Storm.
Vernon God little DBC Pierre
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Award winning year : 2003
Named as one of the '100 Best Things in the World' by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre deacute;buts of the 21st century so far.
Inheritance of loss Kiran Desai
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Award winning year : 2006
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep.
White Tiger Aravind Adiga
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Award winning year : 2008
Aravind Adigawas born in India in 1974 and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. A former correspondent forTimemagazine, he has also been published in the Financial Times. He lives in Mumbai, India.
Bring up the bodies Hilary Mantel
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Award winning year : 2012
By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the Blacksmith’s son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church.
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