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October 12, 2005: "What it's Like to Party with the Booker Crowd
The Man Booker Prize: "For the judges it began at 1.30pm when they met to choose the winner (from the shortlist of six) over a three-hour lunch at the Clerkenwell home of Lindsay Duguid, fiction editor of the TLS. Rick Gekoski, the rare-book dealer, proposed they each speak up for their favourite book. He chose Banville's The Sea, which he regards as "up there in the context of high modernism with TS Eliot, Joyce, Nabokov, Wallace Stevens". Others spoke for Zadie Smith's On Beauty and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go."
