I'm so pleased to learn today that Hilary Mantel is on the Man Booker shortlist for Bring Up the Bodies which I thought was stupendously brilliant. Of course, she won the prize in 2009 for Wolf Hall so the chances of her doing the double must be about the same as Arsenal's this year. However, with dishy Dan Stevens as one of the judges (how on earth did he find time to read 146 books?) I can only be hopeful of further success for Thomas Cromwell and the court of Henry VIII. It sounds like Will Self will provide serious competition though.
In a weak moment earlier, I thought I should follow Dan on Twitter given his current high profile, obvious taste, intelligence and all round fabulous gorgeousness. I now discover that @thatdanstevens has over 44,000 followers but says nothing remotely interesting and surely must be a spoof. The next best thing is @ManBookerPrize which has been updating me this evening on the shortlist party (of course, there just has to be a party) and which provided me with this photo, although Dan has his serious and rather earnest face on.
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