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Nominations for The Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker’ Prize announced
by Clayton Wehner - August 8th, 2012
The Guardian in the UK has released its annual longlist of titles for the ‘Not the Booker’ Prize. The prize has the same criteria as the Booker, but is voted by the public. The winner receives a Guardian coffee mug.
Members of the public have until 9 August to vote for their favourite titles, ahead of a shortlist announcement later this week. Here is the full list of titles on the longlist:
From: The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/aug/03/not-the-booker-prize-2012-vote-shortlist
Socrates Adams – Everything’s Fine
Kitty Aldridge – A Trick I Learned from Dead Men
Louis Armand – Breakfast at Midnight
Ros Barber – The Marlowe Papers
Nicola Barker – The Yips
Ned Beauman – The Teleportation Accident
Liam Murray Bell – So It Is
Caroline Brothers – Hinterland
Peter Carey – The Chemistry of Tears
Adam Christopher – Empire State
Glen Duncan – Talulla Rising
Steve Ely – Ratmen
Stuart Evers – If This Is Home
Jenni Fagan – The Panopticon
Patrick Flanery – Absolution
Vanessa Gebbie – The Coward’s Tale
Jonny Gibbings – Malice in Blunderland
Andrea Gillies – The White Lie
M John Harrison – Empty Space
Lander Hawes – Captivity
Peter Hobbs – In the Orchard, the Swallows
Kerry Hudson – Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
JW Ironmonger – The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder
Lars Iyer – Dogma
Suzanne Joinson – A Lady Cyclist’s Guide To Kashgar
Susanna Jones – When Nights Were Cold
Aj Kirby – Paint This Town Red
Margo Lanagan – The Brides of Rollrock Island
John Lanchester – Capital
Harriet Lane – Alys Always
Will Le Fleming – Central Reservation
Deborah Levy – Swimming Home
Nell Leyshon – The Colour of Milk
Karen Lord – Redemption In Indigo
Kenneth Macleod – The Incident
Hilary Mantel – Bring Up the Bodies
Paul Mason – Rare Earth
Simon Mawer – The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Stephen May – Life! Death! Prizes!
Samantha Mills – The Quiddity of Will Self
Timothy Mo – Pure
Alan Monaghan – A Soldier’s Farewell
Ewan Morrison – Tales from the Mall
Steve Mosby – Dark Room
Benjamin Myers – Pig Iron
Michael Palin – The Truth
Elliot Perlman – The Street Sweeper
Richard Pierce – Dead Men
Tom Pollock – The City’s Son
Alex Preston – The Revelations
David Rain – The Heat of the Sun
Anna Raverat – Signs of Life
Dan Rhodes – This Is Life
Keith Ridgway – Hawthorn and Child
Gwendoline Riley – Opposed Positions
Adam Roberts – Jack Glass
Bethan Roberts – My Policeman
Fiona Robyn – The Most Beautiful Thing
Iain Rowan – One of Us]
Zadie Smith – NW
James Smythe – The Testimony
Simon Swift – The Casablanca Case
Graeme Talboys – Stealing Into Winter
Tarun Tejpal – The Story of My Assassins
Paul Torday – The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall
Adam Thorpe – Flight
Alan Warner – Dead Man’s Pedal
Peter Wild – The Passenger
Will Wiles – The Care of Wooden Floors
Ada Wilson – Red Army Faction Blues
Jacqueline Winspear – Elegy For Eddie
Chris Womersley – Bereft
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