The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize has been announced!

The winner of the Man Booker Prize will receive £50,000 prize. This is the second year that the Prize has been open to writers of all nationalities writing in English.

The six shortlisted novels are:

• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
• The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
• The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The chair of the judges, Michael Wood, said:

‘We re-read all 13 books on the longlist and in the process we rediscovered new pleasures in each. The writers on the shortlist present an extraordinary range of approaches to fiction. They come from very different cultures and are themselves at very different stages of their careers.’

Find more information about the Man Booker Prize