Jean Baird's Booker Prize Project

Dooneyscafe.com is pleased to provide you with Jean Baird's year-by-year analysis of the Booker Prize jury deliberations.

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1993

Jean Baird posts her analysis of the 1993 Booker Prize shortlist.

1992

Jean Baird uploads her analysis of the 1992 Booker competition.

1991

Jean Baird uploads the year 1991 to her Booker Prize analysis, along with an interesting squabble over the conditions of book publishing in Canada

1990

Jean Baird uploads her evaluation of the 1990 Booker Prize competition, along with a discussion of overheads in Canadian prize budgets

1989

1989   The National Book Trust administers the Booker Prize in the UK. The organization appears to be networked with everyone, with connections to anything and everything connected to books. Its motto is “inspiring a love of books.” Notice that it’s all about books, not about writers.   As well as the Booker, the Trust [...]

1988

We’re going to bring Jeans reports closer to the present in the next several weeks, so get ready to follow them in quick succession.

1987

Jean Baird files her report on 1987. It’s an interesting year.

1986

It’s February. But in the Booker Trail it’s 1986, and Robertson Davies is almost the winner. Margaret Atwood gets on the shortlist, and neither wins…

1985

Jean Baird uploads her 1985 analysis, but she’s more interested in the machinations behind Canada Reads.

1984

I’ve been thinking a lot about expectations. As we become more experienced readers how much do our expectations affect our response to a novel? The rest of our lives ebb and flow with our expectations so why not reading? George and I  lost our sea legs in Singapore, but it took a while, and not [...]

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