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Potter Edmund de Waal has been pronounced odds-on favourite to win the Costa Book of The Year by bookie William Hill.
De Waal, who won the Costa Biography Award for his memoir The Hare With Amber Eyes (Chatto) is currently 13-8 to win the £30,000 gong.
Costa Novel Award Winner Maggie O’Farrell’s The Hand That First Held Mine (Headline Review) is in second place at 11-4, followed by poet Jo Shapcott’s collection Of Mutability (Faber), at 4-1.
Kishwar Desai’s First Novel Award-winner Witness the Night (Beautiful Books) and children’s category winner Jason Wallace’s Out of Shadows (Andersen Press) both come in at level pegging with odds of 5-1.
The winner will be announced at a ceremony on 25th January.