54 h. ago Andrew Miller is bookies’ favourite to win 2025 Booker prize

The Land in Winter has shortest odds of victory, ahead of Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and SunnyAndrew Miller is the bookmakers’ favourite to win the 2025 Booker prize, which will be announced on Monday evening in London.The English author tops the William Hill odds at 6/4 for The Land in Winter, a novel set in 1960s England which follows two marriages struggling under the weight of postwar class divisions, professional dislocation and emotional estrangement. Miller was previously shortlisted for the Booker in 2001 for his novel Oxygen. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Two authors named as favourites to win 2025 Booker Prize for fiction

British novelist Andrew Miller and Indian author Kiran Desai are the favourites to win the award at a ceremony in London on Monday

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62 h. ago Andrew Miller and Kiran Desai are favorites to win the Booker Prize for fiction

British novelist Andrew Miller and Indian author Kiran Desai are the favorites to win the Booker Prize for fiction at a ceremony in London

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9 d. ago I'm an author — these five books are so good I recommend them to everyone

Alix E. Harrow, author of Starling House, The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Everlasting, has shared some of her top book recommendations for book lovers

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1 week ago Wild theory Prince William can't read, is 'functionally illiterate' and prefers Batman films

The future King is said to the be the first monarch never to have read Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution and can't name a favourite author, leading to speculation that he can't read

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1 week ago Wild theory Prince William won't read, is 'functionally illiterate' and prefers Batman films

The future King is said to the be the first monarch never to have read Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution and can't name a favourite author, leading to speculation that he can't read

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2 w. ago Booker Prize announces launch of first award for children’s fiction

The Children’s Booker Prize winner will be chosen by a combined panel of child and adult judges and awarded £50,000.

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