Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist
Cape
Stanley Middleton
Holiday
Hutchinson
The shortlist this year included Kingsley Amis’s Ending Up, which caused many raised eyebrows as Elizabeth Jane Howard, his wife, was one of the three judges. Despite her assertion that this was ‘easily Kingsley’s best book’, Amis was beaten by the first Booker Prize tie, Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist and Stanley Middleton’s Holiday.
Shortlisted authors
Kingsley Amis
Ending Up
Cape
Beryl Bainbridge
The Bottle Factory Outing
Duckworth
C.P. Snow
In Their Wisdom
Macmillan
Judges
Ion Trewin (Chair)
A.S. Byatt
Elizabeth Jane Howard
