Man Booker Prize announces 2016 longlist

The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize is out. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges: Amanda Foreman (Chair); Jon Day; Abdulrazak Gurnah; David Harsent and Olivia Williams. It was chosen from 155 submissions published.