Enter the Guardian first book award 2014
Submissions are now open for publishers to enter the Guardian first book award 2014. The closing date is midnight Friday 6 June 2014The Guardian first book award was established in 1999. It is awarded...
View ArticleGuardian first book award 2014: 10th book terms and conditions
How to nominate a book for the 10th place on the First book award longlist1. The "First book award: 10th book" competition (the "Competition"), allows nominations from readers for the Guardian first...
View ArticleGuardian first book award 2014: add your nomination
One of the titles on the longlist for this year's prize for literary debuts is up to readers. Please nominate the best new work you've read in the last 12 monthsThe cupboards are full to bursting, the...
View ArticleReading the readers' choices for the Guardian first book award 2014
This year's nominations were vibrant and eclectic and it's taken much discussion to select May-Lan Tan as the title to go forwardNews: Readers choose May-Lan Tan for the longlistWell that was fun. The...
View ArticleGuardian first book award 2014: readers' choice for longlist
May-Lan Tan's short story collection, Things to Make and Break, is readers' nomination for prizeBlog: Reading the readers' first book nominationsMay-Lan Tan's "darkly magical" collection of short...
View ArticleThe Guardian First Book award 2014 longlist spans continents and time
The books that have made it on to this year's longlist feature lives lived in exile, family sagas, the human brain and the supernaturalFICTIONContinue reading...
View ArticleGuardian first book award 2014 longlist spans Super Furry Animals and science
Gruff Rhys's odyssey and a neurosurgeon's study of brain surgery are among 11 'compelling, illuminating' debuts in contentionSuper Furry Animals singer Gruff Rhys's travelogue American Interior is one...
View ArticleGuardian first book award 2014 shortlist covers neurosurgery, China, rural...
Judge Mary Beard acclaims ‘accomplished, clever, assured – and, of course, enjoyable’ cross-genre selection contending for £10,000 awardThe neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, who first turned to writing in his...
View ArticleReading the Guardian first book award longlist: rewards and revelations
For the readers’ group helping to assess the 2014 contenders, it’s been a sometimes arduous but always enjoyable journeyWe started with Fiona McFarlane’s tiger on the coast of New South Wales and we...
View ArticleGuardian first book award 2014 goes to Irish writer ‘who can go the distance’
Colin Barrett’s intense stories of smalltown Irish life, Young Skins, praised as the work of an author ‘with a clear path ahead of them’Read Diamonds, a story from the collection‘An extraordinary...
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