I probably won't be betting on it but it's nice to know it's out there if you are.
Ladbrokes' prices ~
William Hill's odds ~
* The Life Of Pi - Yann Martel (2002) 4/1
* Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (1981) 5/1
* The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (1992) 7/1
* Amsterdam - Ian McEwan (1998) 8/1
* The Famished Road - Ben Okri (1991) 8/1
* The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (1997) 8/1
* Disgrace - J M Coetzee (1999) 10/1
* The Gathering - Anne Enright (2007) 10/1
* The Sea - John Banville (2005) 11/1
* Last Orders - Graham Swift (1996) 12/1
* Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth (1992) 12/1
* Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally (1982) 12/1
* The Line Of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst (2004) 14/1
* The Remains Of The Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) 14/1
* The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (2000) 16/1
* The Inheritance Of Loss - Kiran Desai (2006) 16/1
* Life And Times Of Michael K - J M Coetzee (1983) 16/1
* Possession - A S Byatt (1990) 16/1
* The Ghost Road - Pat Barker (1995) 20/1
* The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch (1978) 20/1
* Vernon God Little - D B C Pierre (2003) 20/1
* How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman (1994) 25/1
* Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively (1987) 25/1
* Oscar And Lucinda - Peter Carey (1988) 25/1
* Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy
Doyle (1993) 25/1
* Rites Of Passage - William Golding (1980) 25/1
* The True History Of The Kelly Gang - Peter Carey (2001) 25/1
* Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald (1979) 28/1
* Hotel Du Lac - Anita Brookner (1984) 33/1
* The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis (1986) 33/1
* Saville - David Storey (1976) 33/1
* The Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer (1974) 40/1
* In A Free State - V S Naipaul (1971) 40/1
* Heat And Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975) 50/1
* Holiday - Stanley Middleton (1974) 50/1
* Staying On - Paul Scott (1977) 50/1
* The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens (1970) 66/1
* Something To Answer For - P H Newby (1969) 66/1
* G - John Berger (1972) 80/1
* The Siege Of Krishnapur - J G Farrell (1973) 80/1
* The Bone People - Keri Hulme (1985) 100/1
The list of forty-one will be reduced to a shortlist of six sometime in May, and then the winner will be announced sometime in July.
The winner of the 25th anniversary was Salman Rushdie's
Midnight's Children. Has opinion changed or was there a better book out in the last 15 years!?
It's a public vote when it gets to the shortlist of six!
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