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‘Indiscreet’ Sutherland’s Booker role appals advisers Members of the hallowed Man Booker advisory committee, the body responsible for appointing the prize’s judges, are spitting blood at the appointment of John Sutherland to chair the award panel this year, claiming not to have been informed until hearing of it “quite accidentally” after the event. A committee … Keep reading

John Self loved Andrea Levy’s novel Small Island. So I was interested in this profile of her, published on The Guardian Books Website: After years as a marginal voice, Andrea Levy is starting to get her share of the glittering prizes. Now, with her novel Small Island tipped for Whitbread book of the year, her … Keep reading

John Irving, who wrote A Prayer for Owen Meany, which is looking like it is going to be my next read, gets a brilliant write-up from the incomparable John Self here. If I like APfOM, it looks like I’ll have to invest in The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules as well. … Keep reading

Interesting article on the Guardian Books site about comments made by John Sutherland, the Chairman of the 2005 Man Booker Prize Panel: The newly announced chairman of the 2005 Man Booker prize has admitted that the judges are unlikely to read all 130 books in contention, while describing his fellow judges as “light on the … Keep reading