Longtime Booker Prize administrator Martyn Goff unloads about various personalities that have been involved in judging over the years. “He recalled how one year Salman Rushdie threw a tantrum, telling Goff to ‘Fuck off’ before storming past. He listed the failings of numerous eminent judges, branding last year’s chairwoman, Lisa Jardine, as ‘bossy’ and accused her colleague, David Baddiel, of saying ‘stupid things’. Gerald Kaufman and Fay Weldon also came under fire, but Goff’s prize for worst-ever Booker chairman went to John Bayley, widower of Iris Murdoch.”