http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1437339,00.html
Link above. I know some people don't like the exclusively female prize but it exists and the longlist is here.

The longlist in full

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday)

The Great Stink by Clare Clark (Viking)

Escape Routes for Beginners by Kira Cochrane (Simon & Schuster)

Billie Morgan by Joolz Denby (Serpent's Tail)

The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai (Chatto & Windus)

Hickey Tatty by Christine Dwyer (New Island)

It So Happens by Patricia Ferguson (Solidus)

Away From You by Melanie Finn (Penguin)

Old Filth by Jane Gardam (Chatto & Windus)

The Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee (Review)

Nelson's Daughter by Miranda Hearn (Sceptre)

Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill (Jonathan Cape)

The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman (Virago)

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (Viking)

Black Dirt by Nell Leyshon (Picador)

The Remedy by Michelle Lovric (Virago)

Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy (John Murray)

The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate)

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (Serpent's Tail)

The River by Tricia Wastvedt (Viking)

I've only read one of these, Tricia Wastvedt's The River. Not sure what I thought of it, but wouldn't have thought it prize material.

And I have had A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian on my to-buy shortlist for a couple of weeks since I saw it reviewed in the paper.

'Tractors' is on the radio at the moment (R4 10.45, 19.45). I'm waiting for the tractors to turn up, but I missed Monday and Tuesday, and I tend to dip in and out of radio so maybe I missed that bit and I'll be 'tractored' up to the oxters tonight. Got the Joolz Denby (Billie Morgan) out of the library yesterday, but I've only read the first page. Is Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk About Kevin) a woman?

Joe (wannabe author of 'A Short History Of Amateur Dentistry in Albanian'

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Oops, unwanted smiley creep appears again, but thanks to Dee I know what brings them on. I'd hate you to think I laugh at my own lame jokes.