![]() ![]() "The deserved success of Midnight's Children in the 1981 Booker Prize obscured a book that is a winner every year: Molly Keane's Good Behaviour. She recommends reading Good Behaviour by Molly Keane. The legendary English novelist won in 2009 for Wolf Hall and again in 2012 for the sequel Bring Up the Bodies. Inspired by this, CBC Books is asking previous Man Booker Prize winners: What novel would you consider to be an "overlooked classic" deserving of more readers?įirst up is Hilary Mantel, one of few writers to ever receive the Booker twice. ![]() In accepting the Golden Man Booker Prize, The English Patientauthor Michael Ondaatje commented that he wished "that those of us on this Man Booker list had been invited to propose and speak about what we felt were the overlooked classics - in order to enlarge what ought to be read, as opposed to relying on the usual suspects." ![]()
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