Julian Barnes wins the Man Booker

Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Tue, 18/10/2011 - 20:00 Julian Barnes has won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending (Cape). The author beat a shortlist comprising Carol Birch's Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate); Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail); Stephen Kelman's Pigeon English (Bloomsbury); A D Miller's Snowdrops (Atlantic) and Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (Granta). read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Paul Beatty Wins 2016 Man Booker Prize

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