The Booker Prize shortlist was announced Tuesday, with Hilary Mantel’s BRING UP THE BODIES and Will Self’s UMBRELLA quickly tipped as early favorites to win the award. Every year we think to ourselves, this is the last time you’ll see books vying for or winning a major international award that aren’t instantly available globally, at least in digital form… Half of the shortlist comprises small press titles with varying availability in the US; we did our best to clarify status as much as we could before today’s publication. Deborah Levy’s SWIMMING FOR HOME, for example, will be published imminently as […]