Announced today - The Man Booker Prize 2002 long list:


Dannie Abse - The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glass (Robson Books)

John Banville - Shroud (Picador)

Joan Barfoot - Critical Injuries (Women's Press)

William Boyd - Any Human Heart (Hamish Hamilton)

Anita Brookner - The Next Big Thing (Viking)

Robert Edric - Peacetime (Doubleday)

Michael Frayn - Spies (Faber and Faber)

Linda Grant - Still Here (Bloomsbury)

Philip Hensher - The Mulberry Empire (UHP)

Howard Jacobson - Who's Sorry Now? (Jonathan Cape)

Yann Martel - Life of Pi (Canongate)

Jon McGregor - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (Bloomsbury)

Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters (Faber and Faber)

Will Self - Dorian (Viking)

Carol Shields - Unless (4th Estate)

Zadie Smith - The Autograph Man (Hamish Hamilton)

Colin Thubron - To The Last City (Chatto & Windus)

William Trevor - The Story of Lucy Gault (Viking)

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith (Virago)

Tim Winton - Dirt Music (Picador)