Heavyweights clash on Booker longlist

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Literary heavyweights in the form of AS Byatt, JM Coetzee and Colm Tóibín were today named on the 13-strong longlist for the Booker prize.

The broadcaster James Naughtie, who is chairing this year's judges, called it one of the "strongest lists in recent memory" with a good span of styles and themes.
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THE LIST

AS Byatt - The Children's Book
J M 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 Tóibín - Brooklyn
William Trevor - Love and Summer
Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger

All I can say is that I'm so excited to read William Trevor's Love and Summer.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/28/heavyweights-clash-booker-longlist
 
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Best of all, that idiot Portillo isn't in charge this year, so I don't have to boycott it.
 
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Ouch, they book men in the Commonwealth? Makes one glad to be female and American!

;)

Some nice titles in the list.
 
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