Quantcast
Channel: Poetry | The Guardian
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 4232

Ali Smith favourite to win Costa book of the year 2014

0
0
How to Be Both’s daring combination of contemporary and Renaissance stories leads betting for the prestigious awards’ overall winner

Read extracts from all the category winners
Vote for your favourite in the poll below

Ali Smith’s dazzling literary novel How to Be Both is frontrunner to win the Costa book of the year awardon Tuesday evening – but Emma Healey’s debut Elizabeth is Missing looks set to be the readers’ choice for the prize.

Smith’s novel, which brings together the stories of a modern teenager and a Renaissance artist, was the odds-on favourite at 5/4 on Monday to win the £30,000 award by bookmakers William Hill. Helen Macdonald’s memoir of bereavement and hawk-training, H is for Hawk, came in second place for the bookie, at 11/4, with Healey’s tale of an old woman, Maud, who is losing her memory but convinced that her friend Elizabeth has gone missing, at 5/1.

Continue reading...

Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 4232

Latest Images

Trending Articles





Latest Images