And That's Just in Fiction; Non-Fiction's a Complete Horrorshow

Tibor Fischer shares his experience as a Booker Prize judge with Telegraph readers, warning them "it's clear most publishers don't have a clue what they're doing."

I can understand publishers putting out something unbrilliant out of loyalty to an author (admittedly unlikely) or putting it out because they've already paid for it, but I can't understand them sending it in to the Man Booker.

He also notes that it's fashionable to slam the middle class in fiction; "the conformity was such that I felt sometimes that only members of the Socialist Workers Party were allowed to publish novels," he quips.