The Booker Prize longlist has been announced. The prize is awarded for the “best English-language novel by an author from the Commonwealth”. Here is the list:
- Nicola Barker, The Yips (Fourth Estate)
- Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident (Sceptre)
- André Brink, Philida (Harvill Secker)
- Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon Books)
- Michael Frayn, Skios (Faber & Faber)
- Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Doubleday)
- Deborah Levy, Swimming Home (And Other Stories)
- Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate)
- Alison Moore, The Lighthouse (Salt)
- Will Self, Umbrella (Bloomsbury)
- Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis (Faber & Faber)
- Sam Thompson, Communion Town (Fourth Estate)
I have read none of them. More can be found on the prize’s website (which is also where I got the image). The shortlist (of six) will be announced on September 11th, and the winner will be named October 16th.
