Judging the Booker Prize: what concerns novelists in English today (and what does not)
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Contributor(s): Howard Davies | Howard Davies is chair of the judges for the 2007 Man Booker prize. Following the award of the prize on 16 October he reflects on the judging process and what it reveals about the state of the English novel.
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