Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape – Random House)
Sebastian Barry On Canaan’s Side (Faber)

Carol Birch Jamrach’s Menagerie (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta)

Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent’s Tail)

Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger’s Child (Picador – Pan Macmillan)
*Stephen Kelman Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
*Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
A.D. Miller Snowdrops (Atlantic)
*Alison Pick Far to Go (Headline Review)
*Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
*D.J. Taylor Derby Day (Chatto & Windus – Random House