2005 Man Booker Prize Longlist

Man Booker Prize longlist was announced this morning. Here are the seventeen authors up for the prize this Fall:

Aw, Tash: The Harmony Silk Factory
Banville, John: The Sea
Barnes, Julian: Arthur & George
Barry, Sebastian: A Long Long Way
Coetzee, J.M.: Slow Man
Cusk, Rachel: In the Fold
Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go
Jacobson, Dan: All For Love
Lewycka, Marina: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Mantel, Hilary: Beyond Black
McEwan, Ian: Saturday
Meek, James: The People’s Act of Love
Rushdie, Salman: Shalimar The Clown
Smith, Ali: The Accidental
Smith, Zadie: On Beauty
Thompson, Harry: This Thing Of Darkness
Wall, William: This Is The Country