How to judge the Booker Prize in the middle of a pandemic

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Unable to read physical copies of many of the novels and faced with homeschooling and coronavirus, judging the Booker Prize this year has been wholly different to normal, writes Alex Marshall

Margaret Busby, a publisher and the chair of the judges, tried to balance the work while coping with the death of her sister from cancer. “How did I keep going?” Busby asks. “She wouldn’t have wanted me to give up.”

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