The Man Booker judges have announced the so-called “Booker dozen” of thirteen titles up for the big prize this year.
I’m going to read them all before the prize is announced. Here’s the list:
Byatt, AS The Children’s Book
Coetzee, J M Summertime
Foulds, Adam The Quickening Maze
Hall, Sarah How to paint a dead man
Harvey, Samantha The Wilderness
Lever, James Me Cheeta
Mantel, Hilary Wolf Hall
Mawer, Simon The Glass Room
O’Loughlin, Ed Not Untrue & Not Unkind
Scudamore, James Heliopolis
Toibin, Colm Brooklyn
Trevor, William Love and Summer
Waters, Sarah The Little Stranger
In other cool Booker news, a photographer with the fantastic name Graham Fudger read excerpts from all thirteen books on Trafalgar Square’s Forth Plinth, starting with his favorite, Me Cheeta.