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
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
The Vivisector by Patrick White
This Lost Booker Prize is a one-off prize to honor books published in 1970, which missed out on the opportunity to win the Booker Prize.