Carey takes second Booker Peter Carey wins with his resurrection of the "wild colonial boy" of Australian folklore, Ned Kelly. At the ceremony Who won our online poll? Discuss the Booker

True History of the Kelly Gang Returning to the harsh, brutal world of Australian history, Carey fictionalises the journals of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly. He describes it as "98% made up, but it really respects the 2% that we know". Read an extract Observer review: utterly convincing voice Guardian review: outlaw imagination Interview: Fiction's great outlaw

Atonement by Ian McEwan
Sample the winner of both 'the people's Booker' and our own online poll.
Number9dream by David Mitchell
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Oxygen by Andrew Miller

Atonement by Ian McEwan The lives of three young people change profoundly in this period tale of love and war, class, shame, forgiveness, and the possibility of absolution. Interview: Ian McEwan Guardian review: who's afraid of influence? Observer review: literary family saga Atonement in 400 words How Ian McEwan's mother influenced his writing

Oxygen by Andrew Miller A dying woman and her family await the arrival of the comet in the summer of 1997 in this bleak investigation of mortality, sibling rivalry and betrayal. Guardian review: bleak beauty Observer review: controlled claustrophobia

Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell A young man arrives in a sprawling Japanese metropolis to track down the father he has never met.

The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert A first novel which looks at the lives of three Germans from different generations affected by the second world war. Observer review: preconception-shattering Guardian review: brave but fatally flawed

Hotel World by Ali Smith The intersecting lives of five people during a one-night stay at a hotel in northern England. Guardian review: the novel as literary theory

Booker bridesmaid Bainbridge left out again
September 19: Beryl Bainbridge, the eternal Booker prize bridesmaid, was last night snubbed for a sixth time when her novel failed at the penultimate hurdle for Britain's greatest literary prize.
Sept 18: Is the Booker fixed?
Sept 9: A profoundly English list
Aug 26: Pullman angers the religious Right
Aug 23: Bainbridge denounces chick-lit as 'froth'
Aug 17: Booker judge claims sexism
Aug 16: Children's book on longlist
Feb 15: Booker judges announced

According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
A fictional account of Dr Johnson's last years. Having completed his Dictionary, the upright Dr Johnson is torn between his strict morality and a passion for the wife of an old friend.
Guardian review: elegant and sombre
Observer review: bittersweet farce
Interview: Beryl Bainbridge

If the Invader Comes by Derek Beaven
Social background and geography conspire against a pair of lovers whose plan to be together is blown apart by the beginning of the second world war.
Guardian review: falteringly ambitious

A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
Picking up where A Soldier's Return ended, the Richardson family saga continues as the postwar period brings new challenges and changes to the lives of its members.
Interview: 'I've felt an outsider for years'
Observer review: meticulously observed
Guardian review: Proustian reconstruction

Shamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson
An eclectic prose fantasy from the Ulster poet, in which shamrock tea gives the drinker a mind-bending trip.
Guardian review: potent, poetic blend

The Element of Water by Stevie Davies
Set in pre-war Germany, the firm friendship between two men is tested to the limit as their lives take very different paths.

The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
The tale of an unlikely love affair between the daughter of a rich businessman and an Arab garage mechanic.
Guardian review: limitations of liberalism

Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
Set in New Zealand on the eve of the new millennium, a vicious custody battle brings shame on a family and repercussions to a whole community.

By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A 65-year-old man leaves his native country of Zanzibar to seek asylum in England.
Guardian review: redemptive myth

How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
A doctor's life is turned around when her husband's sudden change of character brings chaos into the family home.
Interview: The human factor
Observer review: poised comedy
Guardian review: a deeper purpose

Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvi Jagendorf
The highs and lows of two Jewish refugee families in 1940s Britain, exploring adolescence, change and tradition.
Observer review: charming tales
Guardian review: fragile yet funny

Translated Accounts by James Kelman
A challenging series of 54 experimental monologues which relate instances of terror and persecution in an unknown country.
Observer review: tortured prose
Guardian review: garbled grind

The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee
Sexual intrigue and corruption form the basis of this shadowy thriller set in post-war Ireland.
Guardian review: a book with two left feet

Fairness by Ferdinand Mount
A young woman in search of a morally satisfying life finds herself in situations that are neither satisfying nor moral.
Observer review: unfussy elegance
Guardian review: neglected strain of the English novel

Half a Life by VS Naipaul
Indian-born Willy Chandran comes to England, making his home among the immigrant community of post-war London.
Guardian review: slight and clunky
Observer review: clear-eyed prophet
Profile: VS Naipaul

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
The final part of the Dark Materials trilogy from this children's writer with adult appeal draws on Milton and creation myths.
Extract
Interview: A wizard with worlds
Guardian review: philosophy with passion

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
As an odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block lies dying on the landing, the drama of his neighbours' lives is played out around him.
Observer review: grinding the genre gearbox

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
A Bavarian priest sets up a new parish in the wilds of Canada, recruiting a carpenter to create a crucifix.
Observer review: no new ground broken

The Leto Bundle by Marino Warner
A young woman searching for her lost baby son appears in different guises across different centuries and cultures.
Guardian review: satire drawn with crayons
Observer review: intellectually over-controlled