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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007 Longlist

The judges for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced their longlist of books in the running for the prize this year. This longlist of 13 books, the 'Man Booker Dozen', was chosen from 110 entries; 92 were submitted for the prize and 18 were called in by the judges. The longlist is:

Darkmans by Nicola Barker (4th Estate)
Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador)
The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Tindal Street)
Consolation by Michael Redhill (William Heinemann)
Animal's People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)
Winnie & Wolf by A.N.Wilson (Hutchinson)

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