Nominees for this year’s Booker Man Prize have been chosen. “Four previous winners – Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie and JM Coetzee – have made the 2005 longlist, as has Julian Barnes They are up against debut author Marina Lewycka’s A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, winner of two comic fiction prizes. White Teeth author Zadie Smith has also made the list with an as yet unpublished third novel, On Beauty. The longlist features 17 books chosen from 109 entries.”