The Challenge has been set and after my dismal failure in 2009 I’m certainly looking to make amends.
Before going any further it may be prudent to clarify the challenge and the reasons behind it.
Each year the Man Booker Prize is awarded to the best novel published in the Commonwealth in the previous year. The winner […]
The long list has finally arrived. http://www.bit.ly/9lmLsb
And with it the Melbourne Man Booker Challenge.
The challenge works like this. All participants read the entire short list and get together to adjudicate the winner before the Man Booker panel announces their decision, just to see whether they got it right.
Of course to read the entire short list […]
Congratulations to Hilary Mantel on winning the Man Booker prize with her novel Wolf Hall.
At this stage of my personal Booker challenge I officially concede defeat.
Unlike most things I have managed to let this task slip from my grasp. Perhaps the challenge was too, er…, challenging? It could be that a month, for a person with a job and a life, is not enough time to read six novels? […]
It is something akin to the idea of pitting Alien against Predator just to see which beast might triumph. Or perhaps more meaningfully for the Byatt demographic, Godzilla against King Kong. The exercise is pointless aside from settling drunken arguments.
Still it is worth asking the question. Dickens was a master of the literary set up. […]