The shortlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize has been announced, but there is disappointment for Irish author Anne Enright and her new book, The Green Road.
Ireland's Laureate for Fiction, the 2007 Booker winner, had been one of 13 authors on the longlist for the £50,000 prize.
The six shortlisted authors, which include a US Pulitzer Prize-winner, are: Marlon James, Tom McCarthy, Chigozie Obioma, Sunjeev Sahota, Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara.
Announcing the shortlist, Chair of Judges Michael Wood said: "Only on rare occasions does celebration come so closely aligned with regret. The regret of what we left out was tempered by the enormous excitement we have in presenting the six books on the shortlist."
"We re-read all 13 books on the longlist and in the process we rediscovered new pleasures in each. The writers on the shortlist present an extraordinary range of approaches to fiction. They come from very different cultures and are themselves at very different stages of their careers," he added.
This year's Booker winner will be announced on Tuesday October 13 with bookies putting Yanagihara as the hot favourite to scoop the award.
The Shortlist:
Marlon James (Jamaica) - A Brief History of Seven Killings
Tom McCarthy (UK) - Satin Island
Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) - The Fishermen
Sunjeev Sahota (UK) - The Year of the Runaways
Anne Tyler (US) - A Spool of Blue Thread
Hanya Yanagihara (US) - A Little Life
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