I Spy, With My Literary Eye

style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">The warm white wine has soured, the canapés have congealed. Literary London is in shock: Alan Hollinghurst is out of the running for this year’s Man Booker Prize but two thrillers, AD Miller’s Snowdrops and Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan, have made it on to the shortlist of six.