Man Booker prize: Bookies' favourite Jim Crace leads shortlist
Six books, set all over the globe, range from
Tuesday 10 September 2013 11.04 BST
Time for Harvest?... Jim Crace. Photograph: Ted Thai/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
Bookies' favourite Jim Crace heads the six-strong Man Booker prize shortlist, announced this morning, with his fable about the enclosure of England's common lands, Harvest.
Also on the list are young New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton's hotly-tipped historical epic about New Zealand's gold rush, The Luminaries, and Colm Toibin's ultra-short novel about Jesus' mother, The Testament of Mary.
The three remaining books are Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland, moving between Calcutta and the US; NoViolet Bulawayo's debut novel We Need New Names, which takes a young girl from a Zimbabwean slum to America; and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being, about a suicidal Tokyo schoolgirl whose diary is washed up from the sea.
The judging panel, chaired by nature writer Robert Macfarlane, is made up of the broadcaster Martha Kearney, the critic and biographer Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, the classicist and critic Natalie Haynes and the author and critic Stuart Kelly. The £50,000 winner will be announced on 15 October.
The shortlist
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta)
Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (Viking)
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