Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hello, I’m Bob, and as part of my project to read all the shortlisted books from across the Booker Prize catalogue, I finished reading the wonderful shortlist from 2000.

No double denim here, but a fab set of 6 books. Enjoy!


Books Mentioned:

00:00 Introduction
00:50 Margaret Atwood- The Blind Assassin
05:44 Trezza Azzopardi- The Hiding Place
08:33 Michael Collins- The Keepers of Truth
11:35 Kazuo Ishiguro- When We Were Orphans
15:11 Matthew Kneale- English Passengers
19:05 Brian O’Doherty- The Deposition of Father McGreevy
23:50 The Shortlist, Themes and My Favourites