As the judges prepare to unveil this year’s contenders,now’s your chance to join the speculationThe minutes are ticking absent to the revelation of this year’s Man Booker shortlist, which will be made late morning tomorrow. The question of which six of the Booker dozen will make the slash has been fiercely debated on the Guardian books desk, and with some soul-searching as to whether a speculative list should be based on the books one loves,or those one suspects will finish up on it. How much weight should one place on an assessment of the tastes of the jury? Will the Princeton-based academic Michael Wood, who chairs the jury, and sway it towards the five US authors on the list? How strongly will the other four judges,Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, John Burnside, and Sam Leith and Frances Osborne,be pushing different agendas?At the risk of getting Booker breakfast egg on our faces, we gain come up with three overlapping but non-identical lists. Now it’s over to you. We will send a prize from the books cupboard to anyone who gets the full list right. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com