The Scottish writer Andrew O'Hagan is in the running for one of the most prestigious literary awards, the Man Booker Prize.
His book The Illuminations is one of 13 books on the long list for the £50,000 annual prize.
The 2007 winner Anne Enright is among the contenders, as well as Marlon James, the first Jamaican author to be long listed for the award.
However there was no room on the long list for a book considered to be a contender for the title, The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.
James' book covers the attempted murder of the reggae superstar Bob Marley in 1976 and the rise of the drug trade on the island
This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges chaired by Michael Wood, and also comprising Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, John Burnside, Sam Leith and Frances Osborne.
The judges considered 156 books for this year’s prize.
This is the second year that the prize, first awarded in 1969, has been open to writers of any nationality, writing originally in English and published in the UK. Previously, the prize was open only to authors from the UK & Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland and Zimbabwe.
The long list includes Bill Clegg's Did You Ever Have a Family, Enright's The Green Road, James' A Brief History of Seven Killings, Laila Lalami's The Moor's Account, Tom McCarthy's Satin Island, Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen, O’Hagan's The Illuminations, Marilynne Robinson's Lila,
Anuradha Roy's Sleeping on Jupiter, Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways, Anna Smaill's The Chimes, Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread and
Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life.
Michael Wood said: "We had a great time choosing this list.
"Discussions weren’t always peaceful, but they were always very friendly.
"We were lucky in our companions and the submissions were extraordinary.
"The longlist could have been twice as long, but we’re more than happy with our final choice."
Laila Lalami, now based in Santa Monica but born in Rabat, is the first Moroccan-born.
Enright won the prize in 2007 with The Gathering.
Andrew O’Hagan was longlisted previously in 1999 for Our Fathers, and Be Near Me in 2006).
US author Marilynne Robinson has been shortlisted for Man Booker International Prize twice, in 2011 and 2013.
There are three debut novelists on the list: Clegg, Obioma and Smaill.
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