Booker Prize 2003 Shortlist

Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | Booker Prize 2003
Margaret Atwood's "Oryx & Crake" has made the shortlist. I'm pulling for it, it was a great book. Here's the shortlist, shamelessly lifted from the Guardian's website:

Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Ali's first novel put her on the Granta list of best young novelists; it describes London's East End through the eyes of a young Asian woman brought to England for an arranged marriage, and Bangladesh through letters from the sister who stayed behind.
Odds: 14/1
Review
Read an extract

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
In Atwood's grim fable of a dystopia sourced from current news and research, the last man alive looks back on a world destroyed by science, consumerism and inequality.
Odds: 10/1
Review
Quick guide to Margaret Atwood
Read an extract
Official site - click at right under "Books"

The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Galgut's soon to be published novel examines post-liberation South Africa through a 'metaphysical thriller' about the arrival of an enthusiastic young doctor at a deserted rural hospital.
Odds: 25/1

Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
A lonely teacher narrates in obsessive detail her colleague's affair with a pupil in this dark second novel from the author of Everything You Know.
Odds: 14/1
Review
Notes on a Scandal, digested

Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
Raw, involving novel from a Birmingham-based publisher about a woman spiralling into obsession after losing a child, while discovering shocking truths about her own parentage.
Odds: 33/1

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
A motormouthed 15-year-old Texan tries to escape his dysfunctional community after he is blamed for a high-school massacre in this fast and furious first novel.
Odds: 25/1
Review
Vernon God Little, digested