Scottish writer Graeme Macrae Burnet’s story of murder in a 19th-century crofting community has beaten novels by some of literature’s biggest names on to a shortlist for the Man Booker prize that judges said “take[s] risks with language and form”. 'Crazy but fantastic': Man Booker prize pitches tiny publishers into big league Read moreBurnet’s His Bloody Project, published by tiny independent Scottish press Saraband, is one of six titles to be shortlisted for this year’s £50,000 prize. Beatty’s contender is published by independent press Oneworld, which won the Booker last year with Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings. “The Man Booker prize subjects novels to a level of scrutiny that few books can survive. The £50,000 prize is open to writers of any nationality writing originally in English, and published in the UK between October 2015 and September 2016.

Source: The Guardian September 13, 2016 09:40 UTC