The First Division club will make an offer to one of the shortlisted trio next week.
The shortlisted acts include Josie Long, who has been nominated for the third year in a row.
Work by the shortlisted artists will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Britain opening on 2 October.
It is also on display at the gallery until 23 April as part of an exhibition of the shortlisted works.
Mercury Prize managing director Dan Ford said the plans would generate "more interest in the shortlisted artists and albums than ever before".
The shortlisted works will be exhibited at Tate Britain from 20 October to 23 December, with the winner announced on 6 December.
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Last year, the prize was marred by controversy after two of the shortlisted poets withdrew from the prize in protest over its sponsorship by investment firm, Aurum Funds.
Dame Jenni said the prize had been "very difficult" to judge because the shortlisted books spanned five very different categories - poetry, children's, biography, first novel and novel.
Ken Loach's The Angel's Share, Ben Affleck's Argo and Denmark's A Royal Affair are among the titles shortlisted in the foreign film category.
And it might help explain why Lloyds Banking Group favoured Co-op over the NBNK new banking investment vehicle - the other shortlisted contender - as the latter wouldn't have reached the levels sought by Vickers' recommendations.
Supporters in the four shortlisted cities gathered to hear the news from Liverpool.
The six shortlisted stories will be unveiled on the Costa Book Awards official site two days before the event.
Tania Bruguera is the only shortlisted artist whose work does not feature inside the museum walls.
One of the six shortlisted entrants is a consortium of researchers under the banner Graphene Flagship.
There is no guarantee omnishambles, or any of the other shortlisted words, will make it on to the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Super Eagles captain is one of the three players shortlisted for the award along with Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o Fils and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba.
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The other shortlisted buildings were An Gaelaras, a cultural centre in Derry, and The Angel Building, a renovated 1980s office block in Islington, London.
I've been pondering the other shortlisted authors' styles - Ishiguro's prose was also very deliberate and spare, but with the effect of creating an Enid Blytonesque tale of cloning and organ harvesting.
Known widely by his initials AP for Anthony Peter, McCoy paid tribute to the other shortlisted contenders, including his compatriot and US Open golf winner Graeme McDowell, who finished fifth in the poll.
Kumi Yokoyama of Japan is the only woman shortlisted, with the nominees completed by Neymar (Santos), Hamit Altintop (Turkey) and Linus Hallenius of Sweden's Hammarby, who in one fluid movement took the ball on his chest, flicked it over his head with his right foot and volleyed in with his left from the edge of the box.
This year, nine buildings from around the world have been shortlisted in the religion category.
The new four-year agreement also includes a series of gigs around London from the 12 shortlisted acts.
The book was previously shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, which eventually went to Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies.
The first two novels - The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer - were shortlisted for the Carnegie in 2009 and 2010.
It is second time lucky for Banville, whose novel The Book Of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker in 1989.
The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989.
His 1994 follow-up novel, The Folding Star, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
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But the film was not shortlisted in any of the major categories, despite receiving Bafta nominations for Dame Judi Dench and Javier Bardem earlier this week.
Author Mark Haddon, who penned The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, is shortlisted for the best adaptation writer category for BBC One's Fungus the Bogeyman.
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"More than 250 higher education institutions entered the Guardian University Awards across 10 different categories, so to win the Teaching Excellence award and be shortlisted in the Community category too is a great achievement for our staff and students, " Prof Purcell said.
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