Handmaid's Tale sequel leads 'exacting' 2019 Booker prize longlist | Books | The Guardian

On a longlist packed with big names - but notable for its exclusion of well-received novels by authors including Ian McEwan, Mark Haddon and Ali Smith - Rushdie is one of several British novelists nominated. Alongside him are Jeanette Winterson for Frankissstein, her reinterpretation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; John Lanchester for his dystopia The Wall; Bernadine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other, a verse novel about the lives of black women; Max Porter's Lanny, the story of a missing boy in a commuter town; and Deborah Levy's The Man Who Saw Everything, which will be published next month and slips between time zones in what judges called "a playful and complex structure".