I wonder if RNIB plan to record the finalists again this year. I’m not very fond of very long books buty will wait to learn more about the winner before dismissing it. Alison From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Russelll Sent: 16 October 2013 07:44 To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ebooktalk] FW: 2013 Man Booker Prize winner announced From: The Man Booker Prizes [mailto:manbookerprize=fourcolmangetty.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of The Man Booker Prizes Sent: 15 October 2013 22:33 To: david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: 2013 Man Booker Prize winner announced The 2013 Man Booker Prize winner is announced. <http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=4292000f37&e=beb9eb9213> View this email in your browser <http://themanbookerprize.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=33c54edb4f&e=beb9eb9213> The 2013 Man Booker Prize winner is announced 15 October 2013 So, <http://themanbookerprize.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=18d2fa4cdf&e=beb9eb9213> Eleanor Catton with <http://themanbookerprize.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=fa2b0141af&e=beb9eb9213> The Luminaries it is. The youngest Man Booker winner in the prize's history (she is 28 but completed The Luminaries aged 27) has triumphed with the longest ever Man Booker winning novel (832 pages). Catton is just the second New Zealander to win the prize, the first being Keri Hulme with The Bone People in 1985. A more important statistic is that earlier in the year there were an extraordinary 151 novelists submitted for the prize and from this reach field of literary wheat hers is the one head that remains standing, waving in the warm breeze of the judges' favour. Life for Eleanor Catton will never be the same again. Read the full article <http://themanbookerprize.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=140ac903d8&e=beb9eb9213> here. <http://themanbookerprize.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=16231b6044&e=beb9eb9213> <http://themanbookerprize.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=1e3e1273e5&e=beb9eb9213> Share <http://themanbookerprize.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=a5adb13920&e=beb9eb9213> <http://themanbookerprize.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=53a69287be&e=beb9eb9213> Tweet <http://us5.forward-to-friend2.com/forward?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=4292000f37&e=beb9eb9213> <http://us5.forward-to-friend2.com/forward?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=4292000f37&e=beb9eb9213> Forward to Friend Copyright © 2013 Four Colman Getty, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you registered at our website The Man Booker Prize. <http://themanbookerprize.us5.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=8739b54697&e=beb9eb9213&c=4292000f37> unsubscribe from this list <http://themanbookerprize.us5.list-manage1.com/profile?u=b6e2f34b8431309f79abf7b7c&id=8739b54697&e=beb9eb9213> update subscription preferences