Here’s the announcement. Should I read any of them in advance this year? I certainly didn’t do a good job of getting through last year’s short or long list after the event. Only the first two of the thirteen are on my list. After a quick scout, I end up adding the next three – that will do as a start:
- Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn
- The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
- J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime
- Sarah Hall’s How to Paint a Dead Man
- William Trevor’s Love and Summer
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
- Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall
- The Children’s Book by A. S. Byatt
- The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
- Me Cheeta by James Lever
- Simon Mawer’s The Glass Roof
- Ed O’Loughlin’s Not Untrue & Not Unkind
- Heliopolis by James Scudamore