Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize
Nov 11 2024
Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey are the bookies’ favourites to win the 2024 Booker prize.
American author Everett was Ladbrokes’ frontrunner before the company closed bets on Monday morning, with 2/1 odds of taking home the £50,000 award for his novel James – a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved Jim.