Mr Pip in Booker Shortlist

New Zealand author Lloyd Jones' novel Mister Pip was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007. The winner turned out to be The Gathering by Anne Enright. The shortlist was:

Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)
Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)


Lloyd Jones was a guest author at the Hastings Library earlier this year.