Past winner Hilary Mantel has again been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, alongside first-time nominee Will Self.
Mantel, who won the literary award in 2009 with Wolf Hall, is the only novelist to have featured on the shortlist of six before and is included for her book Bring Up The Bodies.
The nominees were announced by chairman of the judging panel Sir Peter Stothard and the winner will be revealed on October 16 at a ceremony in London's Guildhall.
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