The 1960 Cheltenham Booker Prize

Which 1960 book deserves to win?

16 August 2010

Which 1960 book deserves to win the Cheltenham Booker Prize? The public will be given the chance to decide as this special event on 16 October 2010.

Join Ion Trewin, Literary Director, Man Booker Prizes, and a panel of judges including James Naughtie, Susan Hill, Toby Litt, Sarah Churchwell and Erica Wagner (pictured), as they debate the merits of Lynne Reid Banks' The L-Shaped Room, Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls and David Storey's This Sporting Life. The event will be introduced by John Coldstream.

Saturday 16 October 2010 at 6:00 pm (60mins)
Event 285 at The Inkpot
Price: £8 (reserved seating)
(member price: £6.40) 

The 1960 Cheltenham Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize Fiction at its finest