Hilary Mantel and Sarah Waters have been chosen for the long-list of the 2010 Orange Prize. Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize in 2009 for Wolf Hall and Sarah Waters was shortlisted in the same year with her novel The Little Stranger.  

The list of 20 titles has been described by chair Daisy Goodwin as “muscular, original and pleasurable.” 

The long-list in full:

Rosie Alison, The Very Thought of You (Alma Books)

Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal (Granta)

Clare Clark, Savage Lands (Harvill Secker)a

Amanda Craig, Hearts and Minds (Little, Brown)

Roopa Farooki, The Way Things Look to Me (Pan Books)

Rebecca Gowers, The Twisted Heart (Canongate)

M J Hyland, This is How (Canongate)

Sadie Jones, Small Wars (Chatto & Windus)

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (Faber)

Laila Lalami, Secret Son (Viking)

Andrea Levy, The Long Song (Headline Review)

Attica Locke, Black Water Rising (Serpent’s Tail)

Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate)

Maria McCann, The Wilding (Faber)

Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy (HarperCollins)

Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs (Faber)

Monique Roffey, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (Simon and Schuster)

Amy Sackville, The Still Point (Portobello Books)

Kathryn Stockett, The Help (Fig Tree)

Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (Virago)

The Orange Prize judges were author and TV presenter Daisy Goodwin; rabbi, author and broadcaster Baroness Neuberger; novelist and critic Michèle Roberts; journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer; and Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue. 

“It was a tough judging process as there was a particularly strong range of books submitted from all over the world,” said Goodwin. “In the end we have chosen a muscular, original and pleasurable long-list that will appeal to all kinds of readers,” he added.

The shortlist for the Orange Award for New Writers will be announced on April13, 2010 followed by the Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist on April 20, 2010. The winners of both prizes will be announced at a ceremony on June 9, 2010.