The MAN Booker Prize Winner for 2009 (the world's most important literary award):
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Other books on the Shortlist for 2009
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Other books on the Longlist were:
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
Me Cheeta by James Cheeta Lever
Not Untrue and Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
Heliopolis by James Scudamore
Brooklyn by Colm Toiin
Love and Summer by William Trevor