Longlist for Man Booker Prize announced

Thirteen authors have been longlisted for this year's £50,000 Man Booker Prize. This year's longlist includes four debut novelists.

The longlist is:

• Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape);
  
• Sebastian Barry, On Canaan's Side (Faber);
  
• Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate);
  
• Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (Granta);
  
• Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail);
  
• Yvette Edwards, A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld);
  
• Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child (Picador);
  
• 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), and
  
• D.J. Taylor, Derby Day (Chatto & Windus).

The shortlist will be announced on 6 September, and the winner on 18 October.

Alan Hollinghurst is bookies William Hill's favourite at 5/1.The odds on Julian Barnes are 6/1, and Carol Birch and D.J Taylor are both 8/1. Jane Rogers is the outsider, at 18/1.
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