2007 longlist

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun - winner

Clare Allan Poppy Shakespeare

Rachel Cusk Arlington Park - shortlist

Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss - shortlist

Patricia Ferguson Peripheral Vision

Margaret Forster Over

Nell Freudenberger The Dissident

Rebecca Gowers When to Walk

Xiaolu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - shortlist

Jane Harris The Observations - shortlist

M J Hyland Carry Me Down

Lori Lansens The Girls

Lisa Moore Alligator

Catherine O’Flynn What Was Lost

Stef Penney The Tenderness of Wolves

Deborah Robertson Careless

Rachel Seiffert Afterwards

Jane Smiley Ten Days in the Hills

Anne Tyler Digging to America

Melanie Wallace The Housekeeper