First time novelist, Aravind Adiga, has won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his novel White Tiger.  Other nominees for the prize were:

* The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.
* Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.
* The Clothes on their Backs by Linda Grant.
* The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher.
* A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz.

All titles have been ordered for the Mullen Library collection.  CBC News, BBC News, New York Times.