Anunciada a lista longa dos candidatos:

Byatt, AS The Children's Book (Random House - Chatto and Windus)

Coetzee, J M Summertime (Random House - Harvill Secker)

Foulds, Adam The Quickening Maze (Random House - Jonathan Cape)

Hall, Sarah How to paint a dead man (Faber and Faber)

Harvey, Samantha The Wilderness (Random House - Jonathan Cape)

Lever, James Me Cheeta (HarperCollins - Fourth Estate)

Mantel, Hilary Wolf Hall (HarperCollins - Fourth Estate)

Mawer, Simon The Glass Room (Little, Brown)

O'Loughlin, Ed Not Untrue & Not Unkind (Penguin - Ireland)

Scudamore, James Heliopolis (Random House - Harvill Secker)

Toibin, Colm Brooklyn (Penguin - Viking)

Trevor, William Love and Summer (Penguin - Viking)

Waters, Sarah The Little Stranger (Little, Brown - Virago)