Man Booker Prize Shortlist

The shortlist has been announced for the coveted Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015! Sadly our own longlisted Anna Smaill did not make the cut this time with her debut novel The Chimes, but what a huge achievement to have been in consideration.

The remaining contenders for the top prize are:

• Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
• Tom McCarthy, Satin Island
• Chigozi Obioma, The Fishermen
• Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread
• Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways
• Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

The Man Booker Prize is awarded for the best English language novel of the year, as chosen by a panel of acclaimed judges. The 2015 Judges are Ellah Allfrey, John Burnside, Sam Leith, Frances Osborne and Michael Wood (Chair). The winner receives £50,000 in prize money as well as huge publicity for the author and novel.

• The Man Booker Prize winner will be announced on Tuesday 13 October 2015.

New Zealand’s Eleanor Catton won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2013 for her novel The Luminaries

For more information visit www.themanbookerprize.com