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There are 13 contenders for 2009 Man Booker longlist:

The Children’s Book, by A.S. Byatt

Summertime, by J. M. Coetzee

The Quickening Maze, by Adam Foulds

How to Paint a Dead Man, by Sarah Hall

The Wilderness, by Samantha Harvey

Me Cheeta, by James Lever

Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel

The Glass Room, by Simon Mawer

Not Untrue & Not Unkind, by Ed O’Loughlin

Heliopolis, by James Scudamore

Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin

Love and Summer, by William Trevor

The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters

The shortlist will be announced September 8th and the winner named October 6th.

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