Waters heads Booker list after Mitchell misses out
The author of Tipping The Velvet heads a list on which four out of the six entrants are female.
The other books vying for the £50,000 (€74,000) prize are The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai; The Secret River by Kate Grenville; Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland; Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn; and In The Country of Men by debut novelist Hisham Matar.