The Longlist:

Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape – Random House)
Sebastian Barry – On Canaan’s Side (Faber)
Carol Birch – Jamrach’s Menagerie (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt – The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
Esi Edugyan – Half Blood Blues (Serpent’s Tail – Profile)
Yvvette Edwards – A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst – The Stranger’s Child (Picador – Pan Macmillan)
Stephen Kelman – Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
Patrick McGuinness – The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
A.D. Miller – Snowdrops (Atlantic)
Alison Pick – Far to Go (Headline Review)
Jane Rogers – The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
D.J. Taylor – Derby Day (Chatto & Windus – Random House)