Hilary Mantel bookies favourite to win the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 Tweet

With the fifteenth Orange Prize for Fiction only six days away, the latest odds from bookmakers William Hill have British author Hilary Mantel as even-money favourite with her tenth novel, Wolf Hall, which won the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Mantel has previously been shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2006, for her novel Beyond Black.
Second favourite is American writer Barbara Kingsolver, for her sixth novel, The Lacuna, at 2/1, followed by fellow American author, Attica Locke, for Black Water Rising at 7/1.

Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall EVS
Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna 2/1
Attica Locke Black Water Rising 7/1
Rosie Alison The Very Thought of You 8/1
Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs 8/1
Monique Roffey The White Woman on the Green Bicycle 8/1

To mark the fifteenth anniversary of prize, the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction will be presented by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall.
The Orange Prize for Fiction was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible. The Orange Prize is awarded to the best novel of the year written in English by a woman.

The winner of the fifteenth Orange Prize for Fiction will be presented with a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze statue known as ‘the Bessie’, created by artist Grizel Niven. Both are anonymously endowed. The award ceremony will take place on 9 June 2010 in The Clore Ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London.

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