Please note - for future readers of this post that it was written 2 weeks before the results of the Man Booker prize 2008 were announced - so we have to admit that are readers, and rather embarrassingly the bookies got it very wrong! - right, with that said read on!
With 2 weeks to go until the announcement of the Man Booker Prize winner it looks like Lovereading.co.uk readers are, once again, ahead of the game.
In an on site poll the clear leader with 35% of the vote is Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies and it looks like the Bookies are following suit.
When the shortlist was announced Sea of Poppies was 4th favourite at 6/1 the odds have now been shortened to 7/2 making it the 2nd favourite.
The bookies favourite is still Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture now at 5/2 but in the Lovereading.co.uk onsite poll it is currently 3rd with only 17% of the vote behind Linda Grant - The Clothes on Their Backs with 22%.
What William Hill and the Lovereading.co.uk readers do agree on, however, is the last placed book which is Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger.
Lovereading.co.uk has a special section devoted to the prize and website users can download and read the Opening Extract of all the shortlist totally free!
A promising debut novel which takes a funny and satirical look at modern day India. Taking a different approach from more recent India-based novels this looks at a darker, more political, side of life. Format: Hardback |
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