No debuts appear on this year’s Booker prize shortlist, which is dominated by established authors including previous winner Kiran Desai and previously shortlisted writers David Szalay and Andrew Miller. “In other words, they are all brilliantly written and they are all brilliantly human.”Half the shortlist comprises American authors (Markovits, Choi and Kitamura). after newsletter promotionJoining Doyle, Parker and Power on this year’s judging panel are the novelists Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and Kiley Reid. The judges selected their longlist and shortlist from 153 books submitted to the prize this year. The winner of the Booker prize will be announced on 10 November, and receive £50,000.