WINNER

Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang

Published by Faber & Faber

Longlist

• Beryl Bainbridge »
  According to Queeney »
  Little, Brown
• Derek Beaven »
  If the Invader Comes »
  Fourth Estate
• Melvin Bragg »
  A Son of War »
  Sceptre
• Ciaran Carson »
  Shamrock Tea »
  Granta Books
• Stevie Davies »
  The Element of Water »
  Women’s Press
• Nadine Gordimer »
  The Pickup »
  Bloomsbury
• Patricia Grace »
  Dogside Story »
  Women’s Press
• Abdulrazak Gurnah »
  By the Sea »
  Bloomsbury
• Nick Hornby »
  How to be Good »
  Viking
• Zvi Jagendorf »
  Wolfy and the Strudelbakers »
  Dewi Lewis
• James Kelman »
  Translated Accounts »
  Secker & Warburg
• Eoin McNamee »
  The Blue Tango »
  Faber & Faber
• Ferdinand Mount »
  Fairness »
  Chatto & Windus
• V S Naipaul »
  Half a Life »
  Picador
• Philip Pullman »
  The Amber Spyglass »
  Scholastic
• Manil Suri »
  The Death of Vishnu »
  Bloomsbury
• Jane Urquhart »
  The Stone Carvers »
  Bloomsbury
• Marina Warner »
  The Leto Bundle »
  Chatto & Windus

Shortlist

• Ian McEwan »
  Atonement »
  Jonathan Cape
• Andrew Miller »
  Oxygen »
  Sceptre
• David Mitchell »
  number9dream »
  Sceptre
• Rachel Seiffert »
  The Dark Room »
  William Heinemann
• Ali Smith »
  Hotel World »
  Hamish Hamilton

Judges

• Kenneth Baker (Chair)
• Philip Hensher
• Michele Roberts
• Kaet Summerscale
• Professor Rory Watson