So Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, is to be the chair of the Man Booker prize. Perhaps it's an elaborate plan to ensure total discretion on the part of the judges " Moscow rules and all " or conceivably, the appointment is based on her literary record as the author of controversial memoirs and a string of spy thrillers. For her first novel, At Risk, she acknowledged the "help with the research and the writi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PM on November 30, 2010