Tibor Fischer slogs his way through 126 novels that, “as a judge for this year’s Man Booker Prize, I was required to read, because it’s clear most publishers don’t have a clue what they’re doing. Taste: there’s no escape. Nevertheless, there are books that I don’t like, but I can see they are proficiently written and that others might enjoy them. Yet some entries were so execrable I reckoned they must have been submitted as a joke…”