Authors on the Shortlist
Chinua ACHEBE : Anthills of the Savannah 1987
Peter ACKROYD : Chatterton 1987
Kingsley AMIS : Ending Up 1974
Jake's Thing 1978
The Old Devils 1986
Martin AMIS : Time's Arrow 1991
John ARDEN : Silence Among the Weapons 1982
Margaret ATWOOD : The Handmaid's Tale 1986
Cat's Eye 1989
Alias Grace 1996
The Blind Assassin (2000 Bloomsbury £16.99)
Trezza AZZOPARDI : The Hiding Place (Picador £14.99) 2000
Paul BAILEY : Peter Smart's Confessions 1977
Gabriel's Lament 1986
Beryl BAINBRIDGE : The Dressmaker 1973
The Bottle Factory Outing 1974
An Awfully Big Adventure 1990
Every Man for Himself 1996
J G BALLARD : Empire of the Sun 1984
John BANVILLE : The Book of Evidence 1989
A L BARKER : John Brown's Body 1970
Pat BARKER : The Ghost Road 1995
Julian BARNES : Flaubert's Parrot 1984
Nina BAWDEN : Circles of Deceit 1987
Sybille BEDFORD : Jigsaw 1989
John BERGER : G 1972
Caroline BLACKWOOD : Great Granny Webster 1977
Elizabeth BOWEN : Eva Trout 197
William BOYD : An Ice-Cream War 1982
Malcolm BRADBURY : Rates of Exchange 1983
Andre BRINK : An Instant in the Wind 1976
Rumours of Rain 1978
Anita BROOKNER : Hotel du Lac 1984
George Mackay BROWN : Beside the Ocean of Time 1994
Anthony BURGESS : Earthly Powers 1980
A S BYATT : Possession 1990
Peter CAREY : Illywhacker 1985
Oscar and Lucinda 1988
True History of the Kelly Gang 2001
J L CARR : A Month in the Country 1980
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing 1985
Justin CARTWRIGHT : In Every Face I Meet 1995
Bruce CHATWIN : Utz 1988
J M COETZEE : Life and Times of Michael K 1983
Michael COLLINS : The Keepers of Truth (2000 Phoenix House £16.99)
Jim CRACE : Quarantine 1997
Robertson DAVIES : What's Bred in the Bone 1986
Seamus DEANE : Reading in the Dark 1996
Anita DESAI : Clear Light of Day 1980
In Custody 1984
Roddy DOYLE : The Van 1991
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 1993
Lawrence DURRELL : Constance 1982
Alice Thomas ELLIS : The 27th Kingdom 1982
Barry ENGLAND : Figures in a Landscape 1969
J G FARRELL : The Siege of Krishnapur 1973
Tibor FISCHER : Under the Frog 1993
Penelope FITZGERALD : The Bookshop 1978
Offshore 1979
The Beginning of Spring 1988
The Gate of Angels 1990
John FULLER : Flying to Nowhere 1983
Jane GARDAM : God on the Rocks 1978
William GOLDING : Rites of Passage 1980
Nadine GORDIMER : The Conservationist 1974
Romesh GUNESEKERA : Reef 1994
Abdulrazak GURNAH : Paradise 1994
Susan HILL : Bird of Night 1972
Alan HOLLINGHURST : The Folding Star 1994
Christopher HOPE : Serenity House 1992
Keri HULME : The Bone People 1985
R C HUTCHINSON : Rising 1976
Michael IGNATIEFF : Scar Tissue 1993
Kazuo ISHIGURO : The Artist of the Floating World 1986
The Remains of the Day 1989
When We were Orphans (2000 Faber £16.99)
Mick JACKSON : The Underground Man 1997
Ruth Prawer JHABVALA : Heat and Dust 1975
Jennifer JOHNSTON : Shadows on Our Skin 1977
Molly KEANE : Good Behaviour 1981
James KELMAN : A Dissaffection 1989
How Late it Was, How Late 1994
Thomas KENEALLY : The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith 1972
Gossip from the Forest 1975
Confederates 1979
Schindler's List 1982
Thomas KILROY : The Big Chapel 1971
Matthew KNEALE : English Passengers (2000 Hamish Hamilton £15.99)
Doris LESSING : Briefing for a Descent into Hell 1971
The Sirian Experiments 1981
The Good Terrorist 1985
Penelope LIVELY : Moon Tiger 1987
The Road to Lichfield 1977
According to Mark 1984
David LODGE : Small World 1984
Nice Work 1988
Sheena MACKAY : The Orchard on Fire 1996
Bernard MACLAVERTY : Grace Notes 1997
David MALOUF : Remembering Babylon 1993
Yann MARTEL : Life of Pi (2002 Canongate £12.99)
Anita MASON : The Illusionist 1983
Elizabeth MAVOR : The Green Equinox 1973
Patrick McCABE : The Butcher Boy 1992
Ian McEWAN : The Comfort of Strangers 1981
Black Dogs 1992
Amsterdam 1998
John McGAHERN : Amongst Women 1990
Stanley MIDDLETON : Holiday 1974
Rohinton MISTRY : Such a Long Journey 1991
A Fine Balance 1996
Family Matters (2002 Faber £16.99)
Timothy MO : Sour Sweet 1982
An Insular Possession 1986
The Redundancy of Courage 1991
Brian MOORE : The Colour of Blood 1987
Lies of Silence 1990
The Doctor's Wife 1976
Jan MORRIS : Last Letters from Hav 1985
Nicholas MOSLEY : Impossible Object 1969
Alice MUNRO : The Beggar Maid 1980
Iris MURDOCH : The Nice and the Good 1969
Bruno's Dream 1970
The Black Prince 1973
The Sea, The Sea 1978
The Good Apprentice 1985
The Book and the Brotherhood 1987
V S NAIPAUL : In a Free State 1971
A Bend in the River 1979
P H NEWBY : Something to Answer For 1969
Brian O'DOHERTY : The Deposition of Father McGreevy (2000 Arcadia Books £11.99)
Julia O'FAOLAIN : No Country for Young Men 1980
Ben OKRI : The Famished Road 1991
Michael ONDAATJE : The English Patient 1992
Tim PARKS : Europa 1997
Caryl PHILLIPS : Crossing the River 1993
Barbara PYM : Quartet in Autumn 1977
Julian RATHBONE : King Fisher Lives 1976
Joseph 1979
Mordecai RICHLER : St Urbain's Horseman 1971
Solomon Gursky Was Here 1990
Michele ROBERTS : Daughters of the House 1992
Derek ROBINSON : Goshawk Squadron 1971
Arundhati ROY : The God of Small Things 1997
Bernice RUBENS : The Elected Member 1970
A Five Year Sentence 1978
Salman RUSHDIE : Midnight's Children 1981
Shame 1983
The Satanic Verses 1988
The Moor's Last Sigh 1995
Madeleine ST JOHN : The Essence of the Thing 1997
An SCHLEE : Rhine Journey 1981
Paul SCOTT : Staying On 1977
Carol SHIELDS : The Stone Diaries 1993
Unless (2002 Fourth Estate £16.99)
C P SNOW : In Their Wisdom 1974
Muriel SPARK : The Public Image 1969
Loitering with Intent 1981
David STOREY : Pasmore 1972
Saville 1976
Graham SWIFT : Waterland 1983
Last Orders 1996
Elizabeth TAYLOR : Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont 1971
D M THOMAS : The White Hotel 1981
Rose TREMAIN : Restoration 1989
William TREVOR : Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel 1970
The Children of Dynmouth 1976
Reading Turgenev 1991
The Story of Lucy Gault (2002 Viking £16.99)
Barry UNSWORTH : Pascali's Island 1980
Sacred Hunger 1992
Morality Play 1995
Jill Paton WALSH : Knowledge of Angels 1994
Marina WARNER : The Lost Father 1988
Sarah WATERS : Fingersmith (2002 Virago £12.99)
Fay WELDON : Praxis 1979
T W WHEELER : The Conjunction 1970
G M WILLIAMS : From Scenes Like These 1969
Tim WINTON : The Riders 1995
Dirt Music (2002 Picador £15.99)