This book is about the Booker Prize – the London-based literary award made annually to “the best novel written in English” by a writer from one of those c

This book is about the Booker Prize - the London-based literary award made annually to "the best novel written in English" by a writer from one of those countri

In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria,

Praise for the print edition:" ... comprehensive ... Recommended."

This volume ranges from the Second World War to the postmodern, considering issues of the 'popular' and the competing criteria by which literature has been judg