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Samantha Harvey's THE WESTERN WIND is shortlisted for the Staunch Book Prize!
Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on being shortlisted for the second annual Staunch Book Prize! The £1,000 award was set up in 2018 by author Bridget Lawless and aims to find the best thrillers in which no woman gets beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered in response to violence of women depicted in books, TV and film.
George Szirtes shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Prize 2019
George Szirtes' hybrid work of memoir and biography, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN, has been shortlisted for the 2019 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize!
Flowing backwards through time, and through a tumultuous period of European history, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN is a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey. In July 1975, Magda Szirtes died in the ambulance on the way to hospital after she had tried to take her own life. She was fifty-one years old. The Photographer at Sixteen spools into the past, through her exile in England, her flight with her husband and two young boys from Hungary in 1956 and her time in two concentration camps, her girlhood as an ambitious photographer, and the unknowable fate of her vanished family in Transylvania. The woman who emerges – with all her contradictions – is utterly captivating. What were the terrors and obsessions that drove her? The Photographer at Sixteen reveals a life from the depths of its final days to the comparable safety of its childhood. It is a book born of curiosity, of guilt and of love.
‘A truly remarkable book... fiercely compelling’ Edmund de Waal
This is the sixth year of the literary quarterly and independent publisher Slightly Foxed’s sponsorship of the Prize, with a winner’s award of £2,500. The winner will be announced on 10th March.
The judging panel includes TV critic and journalist Suzi Feay, editor and biographer Maggie Fergusson and Jonathan Keates, a novelist and journalist.
James Lasdun's VICTORY is shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020
Victory (Cape) is a novel written in two novellas, exploring male sexual violence, power and corruption.
THE EIGHTH LIFE by Nino Haratischvili is longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize
Congratulations to Nino Haratischvili, and her translators Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, on making the longlist of the 2020 International Booker Prize!
Philip Marsden's THE SUMMER ISLES is longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020
THE SUMMER ISLES: A VOYAGE OF THE IMAGINATION is Philip Marsden's account of a solo sailing trip he took from Cornwall to the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and personal significance. Through the people he meets and the tales he uncovers, Marsden builds up a haunting picture of these shores – of imaginary islands and the Celtic otherworld, of the ageless draw of the west, of the life of the sea and perennial loss – and the redemptive power of the imagination.
DOLORES by Lauren Aimee Curtis is shortlisted for the 2020 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
Congratulations to Lauren Aimee Curtis on being shortlisted for the 2020 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing! Awarded annually in Australia by the State Library of New South Wales, as part of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the prize ($5,000) seeks to recognise outstanding new literary talent. The winner will be announced on 27th April.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN by George Szirtes is shortlisted for the 2020 James Tait Black Prize for Biography
Many congratulations to George Szirtes, whose hybrid work of biography and memoir about
The New York Times Book Review on WE GERMANS by Alexander Starritt
"Starritt’s prose is riveting. It unspools like a roll of film - raw, visceral and propulsive, rich with sensory detail and unsparing in its depictions of cruelty." The New York Times Book Review
George Szirtes awarded James Tait Black Prize in biography for THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN
Judge Dr Simon Cooke said: "George Szirtes' reverse chronological portrait of the woman who was his mother is a piercingly beautiful memoir-as-prose-poem, as generous as it is scrupulous in its searching meditation on a death and life, on memory and history, and on how we imagine the lives of those we love."
SUMMERWATER by Sarah Moss published to critical acclaim
'Sharp, searching, thoroughly imagined, utterly of the moment... it throws much contemporary writing into the shade' Hilary Mantel