Booker longlist revealed

Now that media silly season is in full swing--and some might reflect that increasingly it's a longer stretch--the announcement of the Booker longlist comes as welcome news.

The judges have apparently worked their way through 132 submissions to come up with the following; the shortlist will be revealed on 6 September with the winner being named live on News At 10 on the 8th.

A.S. Byatt, The Children's Book
J.M. Coetzee, Summertime
Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze
Samantha Harvey, The Wilderness
James Lever, Me Cheeta
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Simon Mawer, The Glass Room
Ed O'Loughlin, Not Untrue and Not Unkind
James Scudamore, Heliopolis
Colm Toibin, Brooklyn
William Trevor, Love and Summer
Sarah Walters, The Little Stranger

Should you want to tick any of these worthy titles off your reading list, you'll find all in your friendly neighbourhood bookshop (that's us, folks)...and, should you exhaust the list, don't forget to check out our own summer reading recommendations on the website. As ever, happy reading.