Publishers toss Booker winners into the reject pile

January 01, 2006 The Sunday Times - Britain http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1965623,00.html Publishers toss Booker winners into the reject pile Jonathan Calvert and Will Iredale THEY can’t judge a book without its cover. Publishers and agents have rejected two Booker prize-winning novels submitted as works by aspiring authors. One of the books considered unworthy by the publishing industry was by V S Naipaul, one of Britain’s greatest living writers, who won the Nobel prize for literature. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1965623,00.html