WHO WILL WIN THIS YEAR’S BOOKER?

Nights are drawing in, so what better time to stock up on this year’s Booker Prize shortlisted novels and enter a heated debate about who should win?

Yet again, British authors have fallen at the final fence, with just one making the cut: British somali writer Nadifa Mohamed with her the Fortune Men, while Rachel Cusk, Francis spufford and hotly tipped Kazuo ishiguro’s Klara And the sun and sunjeev sahota’s

China Room were left on the longlist shelf. there’s just one debut author, American Patricia Lockwood, whose social media-influenced No One is talking About this aims to replicate the success of last year’s debut winner, Douglas stuart with his searing shuggie Bain.

Current front-runner is south African Damon galgut, previously nominated in 2003 and 2010 so hoping to be third time lucky. Also previously nominated is Richard Powers with Bewilderment. sri Lanka is represented by Anuk Arudpragasam with his war-torn history of the island, and the other woman on the list, American Maggie shipstead, may find her sweeping aviation epic flies off the shelves.

the winner, who will take home £50,000, and receive international literary recognition and a huge hike in book sales, will be announced on November 3. to get you started, see what the Daily Mail critics thought of them . . .