Ian McEwan’s Saturday has already been listed by Ladbrokes “to win this year’s Man Booker Prize at odds of 4-1 – even though the shortlist is not announced until September. The U.K. Telegraph notes that “[t]he bookies’ early confidence is surprising because authors such as Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith have new novels out this year.”

What will Ready Steady Book and Steve of Splinters say?