Renowned Australian author Peter Carey and former Nobel prize winner Nadine Gordimer are among 19 authors included on the long list for this year's Man Booker prize for fiction.
No Irish authors feature on this year's list for the coveted £50,000 prize which was won last year by Wexford-born writer John Banville for his novel The Sea.
The list - which was chosen from 112 entries - contains several prominent British writers, including David Mitchell for his book Black Swan Green, Andrew O'Hagan for Be Near Meand Howard Jacobson for Kalooki Nights.
The list also includes three former winners - Peter Carey for Theft: A Love Story, Nadine Gordimer for Get a Lifeand Barry Unsworth for The Ruby In Her Navel.
Britain-based author Hisham Matar was included for his debut novel In The Country of Men.
A shortlist of six will be unveiled on September 14th and the winner will be announced on October 10th.
Chairperson of this year's judging panel, Hermione Lee, said: "It's a list in which famous established novelists rub shoulders with little known newcomers. We hope that people will leap at it for their late summer reading and make up their own shortlist."
Ms Lee said: "We've tried to be careful and critical judges as well as being passionately involved."
"We have many regrets about some of the novels we've left off, and we could easily have had a longlist of about 30 books, but we're delighted with the variety, the originality, the drama and craft, the human interest and the strong voices in this longlist," she said.