McCrum takes on Man Booker critics

The Observer's Robert McCrum has described the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize as "among the best, and most confident, of recent years", calling the selected authors "a distinctive slate of new writers, all of them deserving of the attention bestowed on their work by Booker". Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]

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