Best of the Booker, a one-off celebratory award to mark the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize, announced its shortlist last week. Now it is up to the public to decide on thewinning novel.
The six shortlisted books, chosen from the list of 41 Booker Prize and Man Booker Prize winners, are:
Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995, Viking; paperback Penguin)
Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda (1988, Faber & Faber; paperback Faber)
JM Coetzee's Disgrace (1999, Secker & Warburg; paperback Vintage)
JG Farrell's The Seige of Krishnapur (1973, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, paperback Phoenix)
Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist (1974, Cape; paperback Bloomsbury)
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981, Cape; paperback Vintage)
The only time that a celebratory award has previously been created for ‘the Booker' was in 1993 – the 25th anniversary – when Salman Rushdie won the Booker of Bookers with Midnight's Children.
The overall winner of The Best of the Booker will be announced as part of the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre on 10 July where the winner will be awarded a custom-made trophy.
If you want to have your say, votes can be registered via the Man Booker Prize website http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/vote
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