Award
The Lost Man Booker Prize
The Lost Man Booker Prize was a one-time special award created in 2010 to recognize the best novel published in 1970, a year that was inadvertently excluded from consideration when the rules of the Booker Prize changed in 1971.
Originally, the Booker Prize was awarded to books published in the previous year. When the rules shifted to honor books published in the same year as the award, novels released in 1970 fell between the two systems and were never eligible. To correct this historical oversight, the Booker Prize organizers convened a retrospective panel in 2010 to select a winner from books published in 1970.
The award was presented once and will not recur.
Originally, the Booker Prize was awarded to books published in the previous year. When the rules shifted to honor books published in the same year as the award, novels released in 1970 fell between the two systems and were never eligible. To correct this historical oversight, the Booker Prize organizers convened a retrospective panel in 2010 to select a winner from books published in 1970.
The award was presented once and will not recur.
2010
Troubles
Empire, Book 1
1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fiancée is strangely altered and her family's fortunes...