Two Irish writers, Emma Donoghue and Paul Murray, are featured in this year’s Booker longlist -

1. Room by Emma Donoghue
2. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
3. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
4. The Long Song by Andrea Levy
5. The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
6. C by Tom McCarthy
7. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
8. February by Lisa Moore
9. Trespass by Rose Tremain
10. In A Strange Room by Damon Galgut
11. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
12. The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
13. The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner

The shortlist will be announced on 7 September and the winner 12 October.

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