The longlist has 11 books in contention for the £25,000 and was revealed on Tuesday.
This year’s longlist includes four books from Australia, two of which are not yet published in the UK.
Hinton, by Mark Blacklock (Granta)
The Tolstoy Estate, by Steven Conte (HarperCollins Australia)
The Year Without Summer, by Guinevere Glasfurd (Two Roads)
A Room Made Of Leaves, by Kate Grenville (Canongate UK, Text Publishing Australia)
Mr Beethoven, by Paul Griffiths (Henningham Family Press)
Afterlives, by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury)
A Treacherous Country, by K L Kruimink (Allen & Unwin Australia)
The Mirror And The Light, by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)