Irish author William Trevor is one of the favourites to take this year's Booker Prize for Literature due to be announced later today.
Trevor was named as one of the six shortlisted candidates for the £50,000 stg prize.
His novel, 'The Story of Lucy Gault', was chosen from an original list of 130.
The winner will be announced at a ceremony in London later tonight.
Last week bookies suspended betting after an announcement on the official Booker web site said Canadian novelist Yann Martel had won for his book 'Life of Pi'.
Organisers then insisted that the announcement was just an administrative error and bets resumed with Martel becoming evens favourite - despite the judges' assertion that they had not yet made up their minds.
