The 10 best Booker prize moments. On the eve of this year’s award, we recall the best spats and gaffes. This image represents the Lost Booker

Novels published in 1970 weren’t eligible for the Booker – the result of a 1971 rule change whereby the prize switched from being for the previous year to honouring books published in the same year. To all those writers aggrieved at the fact that they’d missed out, 2010 offered a restitution of sorts, with the retrospective Lost Man Booker prize. A judging panel whittled a longlist of 22 down to a shortlist of six (on which only two living authors, Nina Bawden and Shirley Hazzard, featured). This was then put to a public vote.

The winner was JG Farrell for Troubles Photograph: PR