RNIB is delighted to announce that for the first time ever the entire Man Booker Prize longlist will be produced in braille and giant print.
Man Booker Prize 2011 - the most accessible prize yet
Thanks to the support of the Booker Prize Foundation and the Man Group plc Charitable Trust, RNIB has produced braille, giant print and Talking Books of the shortlisted titles for a number of years. And now, with a generous contribution from an anonymous donor, RNIB is able to produce the 12 longlist titles in accessible formats too.
The Man Booker Prize was the first book prize to introduce a clause in their rules stating that publishers of longlisted books must provide an electronic file to RNIB to aid production of their books in accessible formats.
RNIB would like to thank the Booker Prize Foundation and the Man Group plc Charitable Trust for their fantastic commitment to blind and partially sighted people's right to read.
The Man Booker Prize longlist
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Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
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Sebastian Barry, On Canaan's Side (Faber)
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Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books)
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Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
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Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail - Profile)
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Yvvette Edwards, A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
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Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
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Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
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Patrick McGuinness, The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
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A.D. Miller, Snowdrops (Atlantic)
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Alison Pick, Far to Go (Headline Review)
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Jane Rogers, The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
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D.J. Taylor, Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House).
The six shortlisted books will be announced on 6 September and the Prize winner will be announced on 18 October.
All accessible versions of the books will be available in October 2011, both via our online shop and the National Library Service.