The £50,000 (US $82,793) Man Booker Prize for fiction shortlist consists of The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt, Summertime by J. M. Coetzee, The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, The Glass Room by Simon Mawer and The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters .
"The choice will be a difficult one," said James Naughtie, chair of the judges. "There is thundering narrative, great inventiveness, poetry and sharp human insight in abundance. These are six writers on the top of their form. They've given us great enjoyment already, and it's a measure of our confidence in their books that all of us are looking forward to reading them yet again before we decide on the prizewinner. What more could we ask?"
The winner will be named October 6 during a dinner at London's Guildhall and will be broadcast on BBC News on television and radio as well as online.
(ShelfAwareness)
