No Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire didn't make it to the finals of the Booker Prize. Hmmm. However, both Colm Toibin with The Master, and Alan Hollinghurst with The Line of Beauty did. Others: Achmat Dangor Bitter Fruit (the excerpt on the Bookerprize web page is intriquing), Sarah Hall. The Electric Michelangelo (ditto), David Mitchell. Cloud Atlas (nice title), and Gerard Woodward. I'll go to bed at Noon.