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23/01/2006
Ali Smith favourite for Whitbread
Bookmakers have made Ali Smith the odds-on favourite to win the Whitbread
Book Award with her Man Booker shortlisted novel, The Accidental, at 5-4.
The second favourite is Hilary Spurling with her Matisse biography, Matisse
The Master, at 5-2 and Christopher Logue's fifth instalment of his account
of the Iliad, Cold Calls, comes in at 4-1.
The odds are 5-1 for Tash Aw's debut novel, The Harmony Silk Factory.
Irish-based author Kate Thompson's The New Policeman brings up the rear at 6-1.
The 2005 Whitbread Book of the Year will be announced in London tomorrow,
Tuesday 24 January.
Thompson wins Whitbread Children's book award
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