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Random House has scored four books on this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist, while Penguin and Grove Alantic have two books each on the 13-strong longlist. Faber, Picador, Bloomsbury and Headline Review have one book on the list.
Alan Warner's The Stars in the Bright Sky and Tom McCarthy's C (both Cape), and Rose Tremain's Trespass and February by Lisa Moore (both Chatto) will be up for the £50,000 prize against previous winner Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber) and the much-vaunted The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Hodder).
Chair of judges, Andrew Motion, said: "Here are thirteen exceptional novels – books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors. We feel confident that they will provoke and entertain."
The 2010 shortlist will be announced on the 7th September, with the winner declared on 12th October. Each of the shortlisted authors, including the winner, will receive £2,500.
The longlist comprises:
Peter Carey Parrot and Oliver in America (Faber
Emma Donoghue Room (Pan Macmillan - Picador)
Helen Dunmore The Betrayal (Penguin - Fig Tree)
Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books)
Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
Andrea Levy The Long Song (Headline - Headline Review)
Tom McCarthy C (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Zacob de Zoet (Hodder & Stoughton - Sceptre)
Lisa Moore February (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
Paul Murray Skippy Dies (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)
Rose Tremain Trespass (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
Christos Tsiolkas The Slap (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)
Alan Warner The Stars in the Bright Sky (Random House - Jonathan Cape)