The Man Booker Prize short list announced

Literati the world over are busy pencilling the six shortlisted titles for the Man Booker prize down on to-read lists. At least one is sure to appear in your stocking this Christmas. The publishers of the happy few will have sent out new orders for vastly inflated print runs, anticipating the heightened demand. “And herein lies the reason why we have the prize. It is the publisher’s answer to the persistent grumble that fiction is in its death throes, something that has been a regular and common strand to accompany this art form for the past couple of centuries, but more prevalent with the rise in digital publishing,” writes Stacy Gills about the importance of literary prizes on Tech Central. Publishings Bastion against the Death of the Novel