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Booker Banville Buffoonery

Best epithet for this year's wrangling?

"Controversial"? "Safe"? "Eccentric"? "Grotesque"?

I wasn't going to post on this but the argy-bargy is worth sharing.

• 14th time lucky for Banville, as the Guardian reports.
• In the late 1970s, I hired some help to assist with filing and basic database entry.
  • It took a month before it emerged that hired-help Guilland was in fact Mrs John Sutherland, wife of *the* literary lion on the London pampas.
• Assuming they are still married, in 2005 she is Mrs JS, wife of the judge of judges on this year's Booker panel.
• And this is hubby John's tale.