Two Irish Authors Make Longlist For Man Booker Prize

Irish authors Joseph O’Neill and Niall Williams have made it onto the longlist for this year's Man Booker prize. Also in the running are One Day author David Nicholls and Howard Jacobson who won the prize (worth £50,000) back in 2010 with his novel The Finkler Question. The judges will reduce the list down to just six titles in September before the winner is announced on October 14th. Here is the full longlist for this year's award… To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris (Viking) The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus) We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent's Tail) The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre) J,  Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape) The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound) The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Sceptre) The Lives of Others, Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus) Us, David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton) The Dog, Joseph O'Neill (Fourth Estate) Orfeo, Richard Powers (Atlantic Books) How to be Both,  Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton) History of the Rain, Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)