Read and Ranked: The Booker shortlist 2025

It is one of the highest prizes in fiction which is one of the highest things in life. The Booker Prize is tomorrow. I like the Booker and not just because kicking me out of my interview with the 2024 International Prize winner confirmed me, in my mind if no one else’s, as enfant terrible of the literary scene. This time I am allowed at the press conference, if not at the ceremony itself. So I should find something to report.