Heaviest Booker Gamble Will Cost Bookies Dear
Monday 07 Sep 2009

Withe Man Booker Proze shortlist announced on Tuesday, bookmakers William Hill are hoping the judges leave the gambled on hot favourite, Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, out of the final line up.
'95% of the bets we have taken so far have been for Wolf Hall, so we would be delighted to see it fail to get on the Short List, but I fear it will be there, having already been backed from 8/1 to 6/4 - and I have no doubt that it will become the hottest favourite ever to win the Award, and the first book to be odds-on to do so' said Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe.'It could become our first ever six figure payout if it wins'

WILLIAM HILL'S PRE-SHORT LIST MAN BOOKER PRIZE ODDS....

6/4 Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel);

4/1 Brooklyn (Colm Toibin);

4/1 The Little Stranger (Sarah Waters);

6/1 Summertime (J M Coetzee);

8/1 Me Cheeta (James Lever);

10/1 Love And Summer (William Trevor);

14/1 The Children's Book (A S Byatt);

16/1 Not Untrue and Not Unkind (Ed O'Loughlin);

16/1 The Glass Room (Simon Mawer);

20/1 The Quickening Maze (Adam Foulds);

20/1 Heliopolis (James Scudamore);

20/1 The Wilderness (Samantha Harvey);

25/1 How To Paint A Dead Man (Sarah Hall)