We’ve ventured a few guesses as to who will make the Man Booker prize longlist – but which books do you expect to see on it? And how many of them will be American?
Tomorrow we'll learn which novels are in contention - and for the first time, some of them will be American. Stuart Kelly, one of last year's judges, makes some informed guesses
Robert McCrum: The self-styled 'most important literary prize in the English-speaking world' has finally ironed out the disabling anomaly that threatened to undermine its global significance
There are fears that British, Irish and Commonwealth writers would lose out to American authors – but that underestimates the strength of the existing competition