Waters heads Booker list after Mitchell misses out

SARAH Waters is tipped to win this year’s Man Booker Prize with her novel The Night Watch after favourite David Mitchell failed to make the shortlist.

Waters heads Booker list after Mitchell misses out

The author of Tipping The Velvet heads a list on which four out of the six entrants are female.

The other books vying for the £50,000 (€74,000) prize are The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai; The Secret River by Kate Grenville; Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland; Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn; and In The Country of Men by debut novelist Hisham Matar.

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