1. The Dream of the Decade by Afshin Rattansi (Booksurge, February)- Long-awaited debut by former BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera journalist about terrorism, the media, property and London, hotly tipped for the Booker;

2. The Book of Dave by Will Self (Viking, March)-post-apocalyptic London;

3. Ludmila's Broken English by DBC Pierre (Faber, March) - by former Booker prizewinning author, can he do it again?;

4. The Tent by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury, March)-short story collection;

5. In The Good Life by Jay McInerney(Bloomsbury, March)-like The Dream of the Decade, traces characters scarred by terrorism, hotly tipped;

6. Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (Faber, May)-an artist fallen on hard times and his eccentric brother by the double Booker prizewinner;

7. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (Sceptre, May)- boyhood and adolescence;

8. jPod by Douglas Coupland (Bloomsbury, June) - geeks;

9. Restless by William Boyd (Bloomsbury, September)- about the second world war;