The Man Booker Prize
Back in 1971, the Booker Prize was revamped to honour the best novel of the year based on its year of publications. In doing so, many books published in 1970 were left out in the dark with no opportunity of winning a Booker Prize… until this year. The Lost Man Booker Prize is the brainchild of Peter Straus, honorary archivist to the Booker Prize Foundation.
A panel of 3 judges has been appointed to select a shortlist of 6 novels from a longlist of 22 books published during that period. They are Rachel Cooke, Katie Derham and Tobias Hill. These books would have been eligible and are still in print today. They are:
A Guilty Thing Surprised by Ruth Rendell
- The Hand Reared Boy by Brian Aldisso
- A Little Of What You Fancy? by H.E.Bates
- The Birds On The Trees by Nina Bawden
- A Place In England by Melvyn Bragg
- Down All The Days by Christy Brown
- Bomber by Len Deighton
- Troubles by J.G.Farrell
- The Circle by Elaine Feinstein
- The Bay Of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
- A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill
- I’m The King Of The Castle by Susan Hill
- A Domestic Animal by Francis King
- Fire Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
- Out Of The Shelter by David Lodge
- A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
- Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
- Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian,
- Head To Toe by Joe Orton,
- Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault
- A Guilty Thing Surprised by Ruth Rendell
- The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
- The Vivisector by Patrick White
The shortlist will be announced in March but, as with the Best of the Booker in 2008, the international reading public will decide the winner by voting via the Man Booker Prize website. The overall winner will be announced in May.
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