Previous winners on Booker list

Two previous winners of the £21,000 ($75,072) Booker Prize are on the list of six nominees for the prestigious award for best novel of the year.

Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda won in 1988, and his new True History of the Kelly Gang is on the shortlist this year. Ian McEwan, who took the prize in 1998 with Amsterdam, is nominated this year for Atonement. First-time novelist Rachel Seiffert was nominated for The Dark Room. Also listed were Oxygen, by Andrew Miller; number9dream by David Mitchell and Hotel World by Ali Smith. The winner will be announced in mid-October.