The Man Booker Prize 2005 - Longlist announced

The longlist for the Man Booker Prize 2005 has been announced. You can either pop over to the official website to read the official press release or you can skip the corporate guff and read the longlist below:

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