Melvyn Bragg, Len Deighton, J.G. Farrell, Susan Hill, David Lodge, Ruth Rendell and Patrick White are just some of the authors who could win The Lost Man Booker Prize which is unveiled today, Monday 1st February. This is a one-off prize to honour books published in 1970 which missed out on the opportunity to win the Booker Prize.

Lord Melvyn Bragg, Ruth Rendell, Joe Orton, Iris Murdoch and HE Bates are among the novelists in the running for a special Lost Man Booker Prize - for works published in 1970 which "fell through the net".

Iris Murdoch's "A Fairly Honourable Defeat" is up against 21 other works, including "The Fire Dwellers" by Margaret Laurence, Len Deighton's "Bomber," ''A Guilty Thing Surprised," by Ruth Rendell, and "A Clubbable Woman," by Reginald Hill.