The winner of our fiercly competitive Simon Kernick competition is Mr P. Hurst! Actually he's the only one who got the question right. The answer of course is Tom Hickey. But you all knew that, really, right? (And the question was "What is the name of the lecturer in humanities at Brighton Polytechnic who was a major inspiration to Mr Kernick?")

So congratulations Phil, the book is in the post. 
Happy reading.

The answers to the "Signed Salman Rushdie" competition were Lewis Shiner (remember, we should all be reading him....) and Ptosis. 

The lucky winners are Therese Granlund and Johan Anglemark! Congratulations! Get in touch for desired ink.

• Salman Rushdie in the bookshop
• Lewis Shiner in the bookshop
  

We are running a competition on our Facebook page. Price is a signed copy of Luka and the Fire of Life - signed by the very man himself.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 longlist:

• Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America
• Emma Donoghue - Room
• Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal
• Damon Galgut - In a Strange Room
• Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question
• Andrea Levy - The Long Song
• Tom McCarthy - C
• David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
• Lisa Moore - February
• Paul Murray - Skippy Dies
• Rose Tremain - Trespass
• Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
• Alan Warner - The Stars in the Bright Sky

More about The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 longlist