Congratulations to all the authors longlisted for the year’s Man Booker Prize. 13 books will compete for the £50,000 prize, which, for the second year, allows in writers of all nationalities writing in English.

Chair of the 2015 judges, Michael Wood, comments: ‘The range of different performances and forms of these novels is amazing. All of them do something exciting with the language they have chosen to use.’

The longlist includes three debut writers (Bill Clegg, Chigozie Obioma and Anna Smaill), alongside more established names including one previous winner, Anne Enright.

The full longlist is:

• Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
• The Green Road by Anne Enright
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
• Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
• The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
• The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan
• Lila by Marilynne Robinson
• Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
• The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
• The Chimes by Anna Smaill
• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Find more information about the longlist here.

The shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 15 September 2015.