26th November All bets are off in Booker race

The final shortlist for this years Booker Prize for fiction has just been announced with all six of the authors short-listed for the first time.  

The prestigious prize is open to works of fiction written in English by authors anywhere in the world and published in the UK or Ireland.  All the short-listed authors receive £2,500 with the winner, announced on 26 November, will receive £50,000.

Whilst in previous years this award has been one where it was often been impossible to predict the winner, this year most major high street bookmakers and on line syndicates are predicting it will be a simple head to head two horse race to claim the prize for the best fiction of 2023.

The first of the two red hot fiction favourites is Matt Hancock's 'Pandemic Dairys', account of how he single handedly saved the world during the Covid epidemic. Published by vanity publishers, Flights of Fancy, this unpickupable volume charts how Hancock not only made all the PPE himself out of recycled carrier bags but still had time to tickle the tonsils of Gina Coladangelo in a broom cupboard, whilst managing to mantain social distancing. 

Chapter 6 tells how he had to be removed from SAS:Who Dares Wins to protect the Special Air Service members who were made to feel so inadequate by his alpha male manliness. Whilst chapter 16 attempts to dispell the rumour that an ostrich's anus refused to go anywhere near his mouth during IACGMOOH earlier in 2023.

Neck and neck in this race of political pdants is another work of fiction that has been reviewed by the critis as being 'completly unbelievavle', 'devoid of a single fact', and 'the work of a true mental. Containing a depth of insight that is less than shallow, insider sources are predicting it will give Hancock a run right upto the finishing line. This second blockbuster of fiction is of course Jeremy Hunt's Economic forecast for the UK.



 

 

 

 

 



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