The nominations for the Man Booker Prize for fiction was today released with 13 fantastic titles making the coveted list.
And here they are: Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House) Sebastian Barry On Canaan's Side (Faber) Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books) Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta) Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail - Profile) Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld) Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan) Stephen Kelman Pigeon English (Bloomsbury) Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books) A.D. Miller Snowdrops (Atlantic) Alison Pick Far to Go (Headline Review) Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press) D.J. Taylor Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House)
The list is made up of two previously shortlisted writers and one longlisted author; four first time novelists and three publishers have been nominated for the very first time (Oneworld, Sandstone Press and Seren Books).
Judging the prize will be writer and journalist, Matthew d'Ancona; author, Susan Hill; author and politician, Chris Mullin and Head of Books at the Daily Telegraph, Gaby Wood. Dame Stella Rimington is the Chair. The shortlist, which will be whittled down to just six authors, will be announced on Tuesday 6 September and the eventual winner will be declared on Tuesday 18 October at Guildhall London. The winner will take away a prize of £50,000.
With these 13 reads now about to dominate the literary world for the next couple of months, we'd like to know - how many have you read? Will you be picking one from the list to read next? Which do you recommend?
