Next: The Booker The Booker Prize will be awarded tomorrow night, and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip has risen to the bettors’ favorite, at 6-4 odds (aka 3-2). He started as a 20-1 longshot but now has overtaken Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach. On the other hand, the “favourite” almost always loses. Among them: Last year Sarah Waters lost to Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss; Julian Barnes lost in 2005 to John Banville’s The Sea; David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas lost to Alan Hollinghurst’s Line of Beauty in 2004; Monica Ali and Margaret Atwood lost to DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little in […]