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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ella Creamer

Bookies make the three Pauls their favourites to win 2023 Booker prize

Paul Murray, Paul Lynch, Paul Harding.
Paul Murray, Paul Lynch, Paul Harding. Composite: The Booker prize/Shutterstock/Getty Images

The three shortlisted authors named Paul — Paul Harding, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray — are at the top of the list of bookies’ favourites to win this year’s Booker prize.

Betway’s odds have Lynch’s novel, Prophet Song, as the favourite to win, at 9/4. The novel “stands out, portraying an alternate Dublin ravaged by airstrikes, a government sliding into tyranny, and a family grappling with the decision to stay or leave,” said company spokesperson Chad Yeomans.

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