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A novel in four ebooks is on the Booker longlist — so has ‘enhanced writing’ gone mainstream, or are the bells and whistles just whizzy distractions?

(Jurgen Ziewe)
(Jurgen Ziewe)

So, it’s here. The age of “digital writing” hitting the mainstream is here. The literary mainstream, the one all novelists dream about, is the Man Booker prize. And last week a book published as four “enhanced ebooks”, which didn’t have just words on a page, but video footage and sound and blogs and flickering images as well, a book (or sequence of books) you could even pay for “with a tweet”, made it onto the Booker longlist.

The book, by an author called Richard House, who is also a ­film-maker and artist, was published as a big, fat physical hardback, too. Called The Kills, it has more than 1,000 pages. It is a book. You don’t get considered for the Booker unless you’ve written a…

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