These are all of the authors in the running for the Booker Prize 2020

(Photo: Peter Summers/Getty Images)(Photo: Peter Summers/Getty Images)
(Photo: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

The longlist of nominees for the 2020 Brooker Prize has been revealed, and features a nod for two-time winner Hilary Mantel alongside a Glaswegian who grew up in a house without any books.

Mantel has been nominated for The Mirror & The Light, the third book in the author's Cromwell trilogy, which was selected for its "masterful exhibition of sly dialogue and exquisite description"; she has previously won the prize twice for the trilogy's first two novels.

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The longlist will be whittled down from 13 to a shortlist of six in September and includes eight debut novels.

British nominees this year include Gabriel Krauze, Douglas Stuart and Sophie Ward.

Glasgow's Stuart has made the longlist with Shuggie Bain, a story about a young boy living with an alcoholic mother in working class Glasgow in 1981.

Stuart has lived in New York for the last 20 years, and took more than a decade to “secretly” write the book in his spare time while he was working as a fashion designer.

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