Mantel and Waters longlisted for Orange Prize

Wolf Hall and The Little Stranger chosen by judges

17 March 2010

Hilary Mantel and Sarah Waters have been chosen for the longlist of the 2010 Orange Prize. Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize in 2009 for Wolf Hall and Sarah Waters was shortlisted in the same year with her novel The Little Stranger.

The list of 20 titles has been described by chair Daisy Goodwin as "muscular, original and pleasurable".

The Orange Prize judges were author and TV presenter Daisy Goodwin; rabbi, author and broadcaster Baroness Neuberger; novelist and critic Michèle Roberts; journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer; and Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue.

"It was a tough judging process as there was a particularly strong range of books submitted from all over the world," said Goodwin. "In the end we have chosen a muscular, original and pleasurable longlist that will appeal to all kinds of readers."

The shortlist for the Orange Award for New Writers will be announced on 13 April, followed by the Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist on 20 April. The winners of both prizes will be announced at a ceremony on 9 June 2010.

The longlist in full:

Rosie Alison The Very Thought of You (Alma Books)

Eleanor Catton The Rehearsal (Granta)

Clare Clark Savage Lands (Harvill Secker)

Amanda Craig Hearts and Minds (Little, Brown)

Roopa Farooki The Way Things Look to Me (Pan Books)

Rebecca Gowers The Twisted Heart (Canongate)

M J Hyland This is How (Canongate)

Sadie Jones Small Wars (Chatto & Windus)

Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna (Faber)

Laila Lalami Secret Son (Viking)

Andrea Levy The Long Song (Headline Review)