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Eoin McNamee

A Northern Irish-born novelist whose books centre on death – usually violent – set in Troubles-era Ulster. The Blue Tango concerns the real-life murder of a politician’s daughter

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Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, the cultural broadcaster and peer, was Booker Prize longlisted for the second time with A Son of War, the second volume in his The Soldier’s Return quartet

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Date: 24 May 2002

Life of Pi

Yann Martel’s warmly engaging philosophical novel is brimming with invention, ideas and playful conceits. A true modern classic

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Philip Hensher

Philip Hensher is an author and journalist who was chosen by Granta to appear on their prestigious, once-a-decade list of the twenty best young British novelists

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Julie Myerson

Although Julie Myerson made her name with her often dark fiction, it was her near-the-knuckle writings about her own children that caused a minor scandal and divided her readers

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Robert Edric

Robert Edric is the pseudonym of Gary Edric Armitage and he writes under both names. He is a prolific author who never stints on quality, as evidenced by his 2002 and 2006 longlistings

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Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry is one of a small group of authors to have been nominated for the Booker Prize five times

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Tash Aw

Born in Taiwan, Tash Aw is the author of five novels, three of which have been longlisted for the Booker Prize

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Harry Thompson

Harry Thompson was a highly successful British television producer who somehow found time to write several widely acclaimed books

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Kate Grenville

Australian author Kate Grenville’s fifth novel, The Idea of Perfection, won the Orange Prize in 2001