The Man Booker prize shortlist

As the 2010 Man Booker prize for fiction shortlist is announced, Claire Armitstead and Sarah Crown discuss the books that made it through to the final stage - and the surprise omissions. The shortlist in full Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber and Faber) Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador - Pan Macmillan) In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books) The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury) The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Headline Review) C by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape – Random House)