ARTS / And what's more . . .

James Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late is the even money favourite to win today's pounds 20,000 Booker Prize. Criticism of the shortlist - 'too dull' - has resulted in only pounds 25,000 in bets, half the amount of a good year. Alan Hollinghurst is the insider's hot tip . . . Julian, Dick, Anne and George (and Timmy the dog) are to star in a TV dramatisation of Enid Blyton's Famous Five books . . .