/ 7 September 2001

The longlist

l According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge

l If the Invader Comes by Derek Beaven

l A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg

l True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

l Shamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson

l The Element of Water by Stevie Davies

l The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer

l Dogside Story by Patricia Grace

l By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah

l How to be Good by Nick Hornby

l Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvi Jagendorf

l Translated Accounts by James Kelman

l An Atonement by Ian McEwan

l The Blue Tango by Eion McNamee

l Oxygen by Andrew Miller

l Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell

l Fairness by Ferdinand Mount

l Half a Life by VS Naipaul

l The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

l The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert

l Hotel World by Ali Smith

l The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

l The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

l The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner