Carey on Booker shortlist, Tsiolkas misses out

Tuesday, 7 September 2010 Books+Publishing

Parrot and Olivier in America by Australian author Peter Carey (Penguin) has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. However, The Slap by fellow Australian Christos Tsiolkas (A&U), which had also been longlisted for the prize, did not make it onto the shortlist, which was announced in London on Tuesday 7...