Man Booker Prize 2011 Longlist announced.

The longlist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced yesterday, Tuesday 26 July. They are:

• Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
• Sebastian Barry On Canaan's Side
• Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie
• Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers 
• Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues
• Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats
• Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child
• Stephen Kelman Pigeon English
• Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days
• A.D. Miller Snowdrops
• Alison Pick Far to Go
• Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb
• D.J. Taylor Derby Day

You know the drill - click on the individual titles to check availability, or if you're feeling particularly indolent, you can click here to bring up the complete list (radical new departure this - see how much we value your time!)

As usual, what we don't have, we'll get as soon as we can and update this list accordingly.

The shortlist of six authors will be announced on Tuesday 6 September and the winner will be announced on Tuesday 18 October at a dinner at London's Guildhall and will be broadcast on the BBC.