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13 October
2008 Can Booker
Favourite Win Prize For First Time In Ten
Years? If Sebastian
Barry's 'The Secret Scripture' wins the Man Booker
Prize, announced on Tuesday, he will be the first
favourite to do so for ten years, say bookies
William
Hill who
have made the Dublin born writer 5/2 favourite to
land the sought after award. "It would be
ironic if Barry broke the run of losing favourites
which has endured since 1999 when J.M.Coetzee's
'Disgrace' was the last favourite to win." said
William Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe, "Because
this has been the most open betting year ever, with
punters backing all of the contenders to some
extent and no one book has dominated the
betting." The bookies make
The Secret Scripture 5/2 favourite and also offer
7/2 Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh, 9/2 The Clothes
on Their Backs by Linda Grant and A Fraction of the
Whole by Steve Toltz. The two outsiders at 5/1 are
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and The Northern
Clemency by Philip Hensher. "To be honest, I
have given up trying to second-guess Booker judging
panels, even though as I went to the same school as
Michael Portillo and had the same English teachers
I should have some idea how he is likely to be
thinking." added Sharpe. You can also bet
at Paddy
Power and
Sky
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