The Booker Prize longlist has been announced including four first novelists (indicated by asterisks below):
- Nicola Barker, The Yips
- Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident
- Andre Brink, Philida
- Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
- Michael Frayn, Skios
- Deborah Levy, Swimming Home
- Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
- Will Self, Umbrella
- Jeet Thayil*, Narcopolis
- Sam Thompson*, Communion Town
- Alison Moore*, The Lighthouse
- Rachel Joyce*, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry