They've announced the Man Booker shortlist, and while none of the books are under review at the complete review at this time I do hope to get to, for example, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton when it comes out in the US.
Among the apparently noteworthy demographic aspects of the shortlisted authors (and here I was thinking this was a book prize ...): a lot of the authors are women, and, as the headlines note: Man Booker Prize 2013: 'most diverse' shortlist spans five continents (Hannah Furness in The Telegraph) and Man Booker Prize for Fiction: Six different nationalities on shortlist (Nick Clark in The Guardian).
Among the apparently noteworthy demographic aspects of the shortlisted authors (and here I was thinking this was a book prize ...): a lot of the authors are women, and, as the headlines note: Man Booker Prize 2013: 'most diverse' shortlist spans five continents (Hannah Furness in The Telegraph) and Man Booker Prize for Fiction: Six different nationalities on shortlist (Nick Clark in The Guardian).