The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade. But what does it take to make a Man Booker prize winner? Adam Frost and James Kynvin look at more than 40 years' worth of data to find the formula for Man Booker success