Booker excitement mounts!

The Man Booker longlist should be published today, keep an eye on their site - apparently the longlist will just comprise a dozen books this year. At the library we're going to try out a short loan system for the shortlist to help folk who want to read them all - loans for a week, no renewals or reservations - some of our members might be interested after our feat of reading round last year's Booker. We'll feel a bit left out if we don't do it again. This year a different six groups are shadowing the prize so they should have blogs up on the official site soon like we did. And they get to go to the shortlist party, and we don't, it's just not fair! www.themanbookerprize.com/