Reading Between Booker Lines ; the Londoner's Diary Diary@Standard.Co.Uk

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IF Booker judges were required to leave the room or remain silent (as arguably they should be) when authors with whom they have links are discussed, the biographer and don Ruth Scurr could spend their final session today either largely mute or continually leaving and reentering the room like a maid in a farce. Scurr is with the Rogers, Coleridge and White agency, and no fewer than three out of six shortlistees -- Nicola Barker, Anne Enright and Ian McEwan -- are too.

Intriguingly, none of this trio is looked after by Scurr's own agent at RCW, Peter Straus, who must have decidedly mixed feelings about his colleagues' success.

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Reading Between Booker Lines ; the Londoner's Diary Diary@Standard.Co.Uk

Not many book prizes went by a few years ago wi...

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