Lost Booker Prize Shortlist Announced

The Booker Prize Foundation is going back forty years to award a book published in 1970, a year that never had a Booker Prize winner. The shortlist for the Lost Booker Prize has been announced. Here is the list:

• The Birds on the Trees by Nina Bawden
  
• Troubles by J. G. Farrell
  
• The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
  
• Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault