The Man-Booker Short List

Via the NYT’s blog Paper Cuts, the short list:

The judges of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007 have announced this year’s six shortlisted novels.

The six titles shortlisted are:

* Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate)

* The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)

* The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

* Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)

* On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

* Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)

The shortlist of six was announced today at a press conference at Man Group plc in London.