Random House well represented in the Man Booker Prize 2009

Random House is honoured to have five titles longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009, the leading literary award in the English speaking world. The judges have had a difficult job of deciding from 132 books, but have narrowed it down to 13 – the ‘Man Booker Dozen’.

Our inclusions in this prestigious list are:

The Children's Book by AS Byatt, (Chatto and Windus)
Summertime by J M Coetzee, (Harvill Secker)
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, (Jonathan Cape)
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey, (Jonathan Cape)
Heliopolis by James Scudamore, (Harvill Secker)

The chair of judges, James Naughtie, said today: 'The five Man Booker judges have settled on thirteen novels as the longlist for this year's prize. We believe it to be one of the strongest lists in recent memory, with two former winners, four past-shortlisted writers, three first-time novelists and a span of styles and themes that make this an outstandingly rich fictional mix.'

Chaired by broadcaster and author James Naughtie, the 2009 judges are Lucasta Miller, biographer and critic; Michael Prodger, Literary Editor of The Sunday Telegraph; Professor John Mullan, academic, journalist and broadcaster and Sue Perkins, comedian, journalist and broadcaster.

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