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By STEFANO AMBROGI LONDON (Reuters) - Thirteen books have made it onto the “longlist” for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, up from the usual 12, in what judges described as one of the strongest fields in recent years. The “Man Booker dozen,” as the selection is known, includes two former winners, four previously shortlisted writers and three first-time novelists. The annual award for the best novel in English by a writer from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth counts, because it helps the winning book sell tens of thousands of extra copies. An appearance on the shortlist translates into thousands more sales. Chairman of the judges, BBC broadcaster and journalist James Naughtie, said the list is one of the strongest lists in recent memory, books that readers will want to get their hands on. Naughtie described the list as “eclectic ... taking us from the court of Henry VIII to the Hollywood jungle, with stops along the way in a 19th century Essex asylum, an African war zone and ...