Booker Longlist

"The judges for the 2009 Man Booker Prize have announced today, Tuesday 28 July, the longlist of 13 titles - or the Man Booker Dozen."

here the list:
AS Byatt - The Children's Book
JM Coetzee - Summertime
Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze
Sarah Hall - How to paint a dead man
Samantha Harvey - The Wilderness
James Lever - Me Cheeta
Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Simon Mawer - The Glass Room
Ed O'Loughlin - Not Untrue & Not Unkind
James Scudamore - Heliopolis
Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
William Trevor - Love and Summer
Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger

here more: official Booker Longlist page

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update: and now i just came across this Booker post in The Millions, with excerpts included where available

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