Booker Longlist

We’re waiting patiently for the longlist for the Man Booker to be announced. It was supposed to be announced this afternoon, but it’s already 18:30 in the UK right now. I wonder what the hold up is.

edit: I checked again the second after I posted this message, and the list is now available on the site. Here is is:

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