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Audio version of Booker winner

12.12.07 Tom Tivnan

Naxos Audiobooks and Oakhill Publishing will jointly publish the audiobook of Anne Enright's Man Booker winner The Gathering. The audiobook has been narrated by Irish actress Fiona Shaw, who Enright specifically asked to record the book.

The Gathering will be released unabridged on six CDs on 1st April next year, priced at £19.99. It will also be available for download at both Naxos (www.naxosaudiobooks.com) and audible.co.uk for £11.90. Oakhill, which produces library editions, will also release the title in April.

Nicolas Soames, Naxos publisher and producer of the recording, said Shaw and Enright were "a perfect match." He added: "It sits perfectly with our list of Irish classics by Joyce, Beckett and Flann O'Brien. Man Booker Prize winners vary in quality from year to year, but I don't think there is any doubt that The Gathering is one of the jewels to emerge in recent years."

In addition to being a renown classical actress, Shaw has had a recurring role as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter films. She was also a Booker judge in 2006, the year that Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss won.

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