Diary
Julian Barnes: On the Booker, 12 November 1987
“... shop owner: ‘but the other two call him Maestro.’This made me think, naturally enough, of E.M. Forster; and then of the fact that we were about to undergo the annual garrulity of the Booker Prize for Fiction. Would Forster have won the Booker? In 1905, when he published Where angels fear to tread, he would have been up ... ”