Well done Aravind Adiga who won the Booker Prize tonight for his debut novel "The White Tiger". You can't go wrong with the Booker if you have set your novel in India.

I won't be reading it of course. Not with my batting average.

In the 40 years of the Booker Prize I have read 4 winners:
Anita Brookner's "Hotel du Lac" (1984)
Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" (1992)
Roddy Doyle's "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" (1993)
Pat Barker's "The Ghost Road" (1995)

and read 5 nominated books:
Barbara Pym's "Quartet In Autumn" (1977)
Jane Gardam's "God On The Rocks" (1978)
D.M. Thomas' "The White Hotel" (1981)
Thomas Keneally's "Schindler's Ark" (1982)
Peter Ackroyd's "Chatterton" (1987)

Hey ho.