The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker prize is announced on 6th September. The prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. Recent winners include Kiran Desai, DBC Pierre and Ian Mckewan. The award attracts major publicity, even including betting at national book makers (the current favourite at time of writing is Nichola Barker for her novel Darkmans. But with great publicity comes great controversy, with the award often accused of elitism and a narrow idea of what makes a good book. What do you think? Will you be reading the longlist with glee, or do ‘Booker Books’ turn you right off? Let us know your opinion of the Booker, or your pick for this years winner by leaving a comment below.
For the full Booker longlist see:
www.themanbookerprize.com
UPDATE:
The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize was announced today. The final six are:
- Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate)
- The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)
- Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)
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