WINNER

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss

Published by Hamish Hamilton

Longlist

• Peter Carey »
  Theft: A Love Story »
  Faber & Faber
• Robert Edric »
  Gathering the Water »
  Doubleday
• Nadine Gordimer »
  Get a Life »
  Bloomsbury
• Howard Jacobson »
  Kalooki Nights »
  Jonathan Cape
• James Lasdun »
  Seven Lies »
  Jonathan Cape
• Mary Lawson »
  The Other Side of the Bridge »
  Chatto & Windus
• Jon McGregor »
  So Many Ways to Begin »
  Bloomsbury
• Claire Messud »
  The Emperor’s Children »
  Picador
• David Mitchell »
  Black Swan Green »
  Sceptre
• Naeem Murr »
  The Perfect Man »
  William Heinemann
• Andrew O’Hagan »
  Be Near Me »
  Faber & Faber
• James Robertson »
  The Testament of Gideon Mack »
  Hamish Hamilton
• Barry Unsworth »
  The Ruby in Her Navel »
  Hamish Hamilton

Shortlist

• Kate Grenville »
  The Secret River »
  Canongate
• M J Hyland »
  Carry Me Down »
  Canongate
• Hisham Matar »
  In The Country of Men »
  Viking
• Edward St Aubyn »
  Mother’s Milk »
  Virago
• Sarah Waters »
  The Night Watch »
  Virago

Judges

• Hermione Lee (Chair)
• Simon Armitage
• Candia McWilliam
• Anthony Quinn
• Fiona Shaw