CUMBRIAN author Sarah Hall has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004.

She is one of six writers challenging for the £50,000 reward with her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, which is set in Morecambe. Miss Hall, 30, was born in Carlisle and is a regular figure in the literary circuit in South Lakeland. The shortlisted authors receive £2,500 and a designer bound edition of their own book. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, October 19, in London, and will be broadcast live.