Booker prize 2014: who is going to win?

Mukherjee's ambitious saga is a firm favourite for the Man Booker prize, but Jacobson's sinister novel is in with a chance

Longlist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize announced
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Neel Mukherjee is widely tipped to be the winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, announced tomorrow night by the Duchess of Cornwall at a ceremony in London.

The British author of The Lives of Others is both the bookies' and critics' favourite, according to The Guardian.

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