2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLIST

SO, WHO WILL MAKE IT TO THE LONGLIST?
THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION will be upon us very soon. Here’s a list of some of the literary highlights of the year:

1. Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Peter Carey
2. All That Follows (Picador, 2010) / Jim Crace
3. Into Suez (Parthian Books, 2010) / Stevie Davies
4. Room (Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2010) / Emma Donoghue
5. The Old Romantic (Fig Tree/Penguin Books, 2010) / Louise Dean
6. Whatever You Love (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Louise Doughty
7. The Betrayal (Fig Tree/Penguin) / Helen Dunmore
8. The Memory of Love (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Aminatta Forna
9. Isa & May (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Margaret Forster
10. In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books/Grove Atlantic, 2010) / Damon Galgut

11. Florence and Giles (Blue Door, 2010) / John Harding
12. The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Howard Jacobson
13. The Long Song (Headline Review/Headline, 2010) / Andrea Levy
14. The Bishop’s Man (Jonathan Cape, 2010) / Linden MacIntyre
15. The Wilding (Faber & Faber, 2010) / Maria McCann
16. Even the Dogs (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Jon McGregor
17. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze / Maaza Mengiste
18. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton, 2010) / David Mitchell
19. February (Chatto & Windus/Random House, 2010) / Lisa Moore
20. A Life Apart (Constable & Robinson, 2010) / Neel Murkherjee

21. Ghost Light (Harvill Secker, 2010) / Joseph O’Connor
22. The Hand That First Held Mine (Headline Review, 2010) / Maggie O’Farrell
23. The Death of Lomond Friel (Chatto & Windus, 2010) / Sue Peebles
24. And the Land Lay Still (Hamish Hamilton, 2010) / James Robertson
25. Inheritance (Harvill Secker, 2010) / Nicholas Shakespeare
26. The Return of Captain John Emmett (Virago, 2010) / Elizabeth Speller
27. Sex & Stravinsky (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Barbara Trapido
28. Trespass (Chatto & Windus/Random House, 2010) / Rose Tremain
29. The Stars in the Bright Sky (Jonathan Cape/Random House, 2010) / Alan Warner
30. The Bed I Made (Bloomsbury, 2010) / Lucie Whitehouse

Chaired by Andrew Motion, the line-up of judges in 2010 include Rosie Blau, Deborah Bull, Tom Sutcliffe and Frances Wilson.

The longlist will be announced on July 27, 2010, with the shortlist announcement on September 7, 2010, and the announcement of the winner will be made on October 12, 2010.