Decision day for Booker hopefuls
Mark Brown, arts correspondent at The Guardian,
Tuesday October 14 2008

With this year's Booker prize winner due to be announced tonight, it was understandable that the six shortlisted candidates were a bit jittery yesterday. "It is kind of stressful," said Linda Grant. "I have had to spend a lot of time finding something to wear."
Grant's dilemma comes from her having written The Clothes on Their Backs, a novel based on the premise that the clothes we wear define us. If Grant does win tonight, many at the Guildhall could be casting a critical eye.
All the candidates, the Booker prize's centaurs as Sebastian Barry called them, gathered yesterday in the National Art Library at the V&A to be photographed. The museum is currently displaying the Booker 40, celebrating the prize's 40th anniversary.
Read the full piece by Mark Brown at the Guardian online.