WINNER

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Published by Canongate

Longlist

• Dannie Abse »
  The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas »
  Robson Books
• John Banville »
  Shroud »
  Picador
• Joan Barfoot »
  Critical Injuries »
  Women’s Press
• William Boyd »
  Any Human Heart »
  Hamish Hamilton
• Anita Brookner »
  The Next Big Thing »
  Viking
• Robert Edric »
  Peacetime »
  Doubleday
• Michael Frayn »
  Spies »
  Faber & Faber
• Linda Grant »
  Still Here »
  Little, Brown
• Philip Hensher »
  The Mulberry Empire »
  Flamingo
• Howard Jacobson »
  Who’s Sorry Now? »
  Jonathan Cape
• Jon McGregor »
  If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things »
  Bloomsbury
• Will Self »
  Dorian »
  Viking
• Zadie Smith »
  The Autograph Man »
  Hamish Hamilton
• Colin Thubron »
  To The Last City »
  Chatto & Windus

Shortlist

• Rohinton Mistry »
  Family Matters »
  Faber & Faber
• Carol Shields »
  Unless »
  Fourth Estate
• William Trevor »
  The Story of Lucy Gault »
  Viking
• Sarah Waters »
  Fingersmith »
  Virago
• Tim Winton »
  Dirt Music »
  Picador

Judges

• Lisa Jardine (Chair)
• David Baddiel
• Russell Celyn Jones
• Salley Vickers
• Erica Wagner