Man Booker has announced the shortlist of books for this year’s prize and is making extracts from them available to download free to mobile for the first time. For the first time Man Booker Prize has partnered with mobile site GoSpoken to make extracts from the six shortlisted books available to download free onto mobile phones.
The extracts are available by texting MBP to 60300 and can either be read as text or listened to as audio.
The shortlist includes two first time novelists, Aravind Adiga and Steve Toltz, and represents a broad geographical spread with two Indian authors, two English authors, an Australian author and an Irish author.
The winner will be announced on October 14 at a dinner at the Guildhall, London and will be broadcast live on BBC One’s ‘Ten O’Clock News’.