The Booker Prize

Here's how bad it gets when you're confined to bed: you read everything you can find about the Man Booker prize long list (a Booker dozen is like a baker's dozen apparently).  I'm wondering if I should buy the lot to overdose on literary fiction.  With university reading lists I probably have enough to read.

I enjoyed today's podcast by Guardian Books.  The newspaper of choice introduces it thus:

Claire Armitstead hosts a discussion on the books that made the Man Booker longlist and talks to author Emma Donoghue about being longlisted before being published, and Sarah Crown meets the Forward Prize shortlisted poet Jo Shapcott.