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Friday, 30 July 2010 14:06
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On July 27, the extremelyexpected of 13 novels has been announced. There are only two yearlyworkprizes that really interest me not only for the winner, but for and , namely in sff the AC Clarke rewardand in of learningor learninginventionthe Man Booker, both happening to be UK based prizes and the last opened only to stateauthors.

Last personBooker and have been very fruitful, providing me with 6/13 and 4/6 respectively - including the
finalwinner - interesting reads. Not only that but by AS Byatt and my #3 overall novel and the personBooker winner by Hilary Mantel came from that list.

This year the registerseems considerably less engagingfor me. It has
which was my #1 non-sff anticipated novel of 2010 and for which I begged shamelessly for an arc a lengthydurationago and upon getting it, I peruseit several timers and reviewed it and then it has Parrot and Olivier in America which I bought upon liberatebut benevolentof missingconcernafter 150 pages or so, though I draughtto accomplishit and reviseit at some point.

I also peruseseveral seasonsfrom The lengthySong and I covered almost all the book, though I should peruseit end to end too. Other than that and from the blurb only C seems of concernto me, though I will take a look at the others as they appear in stockor library here.

The USSR 1952 work- The Betrayal - seems to be a continuationand I remember vaguely checking out the antecedentinstallment The Siege though I will try it again, while several of the books are definitely of very little concernas neither boarding seminarynor suburbia tempts me in the least...

So a little mouthfulof a frustrationat least compared with 2009, but still a differentregisterthat gives a try the tasteofof the critically acclaimed current inventionfrom the Commonwealth.

The List:

Peter Carey

Emma Donoghue

Helen Dunmore

Damon Galgut

Howard Jacobson

Andrea Levy

Tom McCarthy

David Mitchell

Lisa Moore

Paul Murray

Rose Tremain

Christos Tsiolkas

Alan Warner

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