Elif Shafak 's Novel on the long list.

We are proud to announce that, Turkish writer Elif Shafak's book, "10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World" is one of 13 novels on the Booker Prize longlist, this year.

The longlist in full is as such:

- Margaret Atwood - The Testaments
- Kevin Barry - Night Boat To Tangier
- Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, The Serial Killer
- Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport
- Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
- John Lanchester - The Wall
- Deborah Levy - The Man Who Saw Everything
- Valeria Luiselli - Lost Children Archive
- Chigozie Obioma - An Orchestra Of Minorities
- Max Porter - Lanny
- Salman Rushdie - Quichotte
- Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
- Jeanette Winterson - Frankissstein