Penguin Random House dominates the 13 titles that make up the Booker dozen just announced. PRH has six titles on the list, and of those six, five are from Jonathan Cape.
The list is a blow to HarperCollins which does not feature on the list.
The winner of the £50,000 prize will be announced in London on 12 November.
The list is as follows:
Author | Nationality | Title | UK and/or Irish Publisher, Imprint |
Colin Barrett | Irish | Wild Houses | Penguin Random House / Jonathan Cape |
Rita Bullwinkel | American | Headshot | Daunt Originals |
Percival Everett | American | James | Pan Macmillan / Mantle |
Samantha Harvey | British | Orbital | Penguin Random House / Jonathan Cape |
Rachel Kushner | American | Creation Lake | Penguin Random House / Jonathan Cape |
Hisham Matar | British-Libyan | My Friends | Penguin Random House / Viking |
Claire Messud | Canadian-American | This Strange Eventful History | Hachette / Little, Brown / Fleet |
Anne Michaels | Canadian | Held | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Tommy Orange | American | Wandering Stars | Penguin Random House / Harvill Secker |
Sarah Perry | British | Enlightenment | Penguin Random House / Jonathan Cape |
Richard Powers | American | Playground | Penguin Random House / Hutchinson Heinemann |
Yael van der Wouden | Dutch | The Safekeep | Penguin Random House / Viking |
Charlotte Wood | Australian | Stone Yard Devotional | Hachette / Hodder & Stoughton / Sceptre |