Among this year's 154 titles is Julian Barnes's Man Booker winner The Sense of an Ending and Andrew Miller's Costa victor, Pure. There are a further 20 British writers such as Alan Hollinghurst with The Stranger's Child and PD James with an unusual who-done-it.
And two New Zealand authors are among the star-studded list - Owen Marshall for The Larnachs and Sarah Quigley for The Conductorherald.ie
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The Nominees