Thursday 31 August 2017

2016 Man Booker International Prize

2016
Winner
The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Shortlist
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
The Four Books by Yan Lianke
A Strangeness in my Mind by Orhan Pamuk
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler

Longlist
Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan
Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar
Ladivine by Marie NDiaye
Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe
White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen

Friday 25 August 2017

2017 Man Booker Prize

Winner
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Shortlist
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
Autumn by Ali Smith

Longlist
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Thursday 3 August 2017

2016-2017 Waverton Good Read Award

Winner
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker

Shortlist
Crisis by Frank Gardner
The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
Belonging by Umi Sinha
The People We Were Before by Annabelle Thorpe

Longlist
The Joyce Girl by Annabel Abbs
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
Gone Astray by Michelle Davies
My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
When the Sky Fell Apart by Caroline Lea
Shtum by Jem Lester
Valentina by SE Lynes
Knowing Anna by Sarah Meyrick
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
Alberto's Lost Birthday by Diana Rosie
The Truth about Julia by Anna Schaffner
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
A Coin for the Hangman by Ralph Spurrier
The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker
Blind by Cath Weeks

Nominations
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
Sockpuppet by Matthew Blakstad
Without Trace by Simon Booker
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan
Death at Whitewater Church by Andrea Carter
The Death of Mr Punch by Jonathan Carter
What Will Remain by Dan Clements
River of Ink by Paul MM Cooper
The Confession of Stella Moon by Shelley Day
This Secret We're Keeping by Rebecca Done
Look at Me by Sarah Duguid
Miss You by Kate Eberlen
The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis
What a Way to Go by Julia Forster
Devil Take the Hindmost by Martin Cathcart Froden
A Ghost's Story by Lorna Gibb
We Go Around in the Night Consumed By Fire by Jules Grant
The Gunner Girl by Clare Harvey
Birthright by David Hingley
Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard
The Ornatrix by Kate Howard
Timed Out by Barbara Lorna Hudson
The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes
The Vegetarian Tigers of Paradise by Crystal Jeans
A Fine House in Trinity by Lesley Kelly
Nina Is Not OK by Shappi Khorsandi
Rebound by Aga Lesiewicz
Bodies of Water by VH Leslie
The Speaker's Wife by Quentin Letts
Ghostbird by Carol Lovekin
Armadillos by PK Lynch
Sofia Khan is not Obliged by Ayisha Malik
The Many by Wyl Menmuir
Beside Myself by Ann Morgan
Fade to Black by Steve Mullins
Villa Eilenroc by Jeremy Noble
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Unforgotten by Laura Powell
Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce
Akram's War by Nadim Safdar
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
Truestory by Catherine Simpson
Owl Song at Dawn by Emma Claire Sweeney
A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter
The Second Love of My Life by Victoria Walters
Rawblood by Catriona Ward
Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg

2015-2016 Waverton Good Read Award

Winner
The Death's Head Chess Club by John Donoghue

Shortlist
Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Burnt Paper Sky by Gilly Macmillan
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild

Longlist
Precocious by Joanna Barnard
Ridley Road by Jo Bloom
Glass by Alex Christofi
Academy Street by Mary Costello
The Sisters by Claire Douglas
The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
The Artificial Anatomy of Parks by Kat Gordon
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
Miss Carter's War by Sheila Hancock
Jakob's Colours by Lindsay Hawdon
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Two of Us by Andy Jones
You, Me and Other People by Fionnuala Kearney
Disclaimer by Renée Knight
Someone Else's Conflict by Alison Layland
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
Post Mortem by Kate London
Head of State by Andrew Marr
Hush by Sara Marshall-Ball
The Good Son by Paul McVeigh
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Thornfield Hall by Jane Stubbs
In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward
The Life of a Banana by PP Wong

Nominations
Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock
The Last Treasure Hunt by Jane Alexander
Love, Sex and other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong
The Insect Rosary by Sarah Armstrong
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
Galina Petrovna's Three Legged Dog Story by Andrea Bennett
I'm Jack by Mark Blacklock
Tracer by Rob Boffard
Real Monsters by Liam Brown
The Longest Fight by Emily Bullock
The Defence by Steve Cavanagh
The Well by Catherine Chanter
The Honours by Tim Clare
The Catalyst by Helena Coggan
Nothing But Grass by Will Cohu
Pillow Man by Nick Coleman
How You See Me by SE Craythorne
Rembrandt's Mirror by Kim Devereux
Toxic by Jamie Doward
The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister
Sugar and Snails by Anne Goodwin
The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Daughter's Secret by Eva Holland
Black Wood by SJI Holliday
The Ship by Antonia Honeywell
My Life and the Beautiful Music by Jon Hotten
In My House by Alex Hourston
Not Quite Nice by Celia Imrie
Death and Mr Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis
The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock
The Art of Waiting by Christopher Jory
Things We Have In Common by Tasha Kavanagh
Esperanza Street by Niyati Keni
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
Tenacity by JS Law
The Last Honey Trap by Louise Lee
Left of the Bang by Claire Lowdon
The Letters of Ivor Punch by Colin Macintyre
Rickshaw by David McGrath
Generation by Paula McGrath
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
The Square by Rosie Millard
Bitter Sixteen by Stefan Mohamed
The Zoo by Jamie Mollart
The Beginning of the End by Ian Parkinson
The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester
Alice and the Fly by James Rice
What She Left by TR Richmond
Paris Kiss by Maggie Ritchie
The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester
Lie of the Land by Michael F Russell
Lullaby Girl by Aly Sidgwick
Plague Land by SD Sykes
Ordinary Joe by Jon Teckman
The Cunning House by Richard Marggraf Turley
The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth
The Fat of Fed Beasts by Guy Ware
The Liar's Chair by Rebecca Whitney
Weathering by Lucy Wood

2014-2015 Waverton Good Read Award

Winner
If I Should Die by Matthew Frank

Shortlist
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
Wake by Anna Hope
Daughter by Jane Shemilt
After Before by Jemma Wayne

Longlist
The Ruby Slippers by Keir Alexander
The Missing One by Lucy Atkins
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Call of the Undertow by Linda Cracknell
The Killing Season by Mason Cross
Can Anybody help Me? by Sinéad Crowley
Insh'Allah by Alys Einion
The Dress Thief by Natalie Meg Evans
The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
Ghost Moth by Michèle Forbes
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Separation by Dinah Jefferies
The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
Bhalla Strand by Sarah Maine
White Crocodile by KT Medina
The Restoration of Otto Laird by Nigel Packer
Acts of Omission by Terry Stiastny
The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark
The Death of the Poet by N Quentin Woolf

Nominations
Pig's Foot by Carlos Acosta
The Secrets of Life and Death by Rebecca Alexander
A Scattering of Orphans by Thomas Alexander
My Biggest Lie by Luke Brown
The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter
The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin
The Crimson Ribbon by Katherine Clements
Campari for Breakfast by Sara Crowe
The Living by Léan Cullinan
Long Way Home by Eva Dolan
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
Writers' Block by Judith Flanders
The Reluctant Cannibals by Ian Flitcroft
We Used to be Kings by Stewart Foster
The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
White Lies by Jo Gatford
Randall by Jonathan Gibbs
The Distance by Helen Giltrow
Barbarians by Tim Glencross
Sedition by Katharine Grant
Ostrich by Matt Greene
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes
Love, Love Me Do by Mark Haysom
Someone Else’s Skin by Sarah Hilary
For Once in My Life by Marianne Kavanagh
What Ends by Andrew Ladd
The Massacre of Innocents by Alan Lawrence
Don't Stand So Close by Luana Lewis
What Milo Saw by Virginia Macgregor
Any Other Mouth by Anneliese Mackintosh
When We Were Sisters by Beth Miller
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
The Quick by Lauren Owen
The Bees by Laline Paull
After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry
Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger
The Last Kings of Sark by Rosa Rankin-Gee
Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera
Treason's Daughter by Antonia Senior
The Glasgow Coma Scale by Neil DA Stewart
Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
The Visitors by Simon Sylvester
Charm Offensive by William Thacker
East of Innocence by David Thorne
Martin Harbottle's Appreciation of Time by Dominic Utton
Alarm Girl by Hannah Vincent
Before the Fall by Juliet West
Chop Chop by Simon Wroe

2013-2014 Waverton Good Read Award

Winner
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence

Shortlist
Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
What the River Washed Away by Muriel M Macleod
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Longlist
A Map of Nowhere by Martin Bannister
The Flower Plantation by Nora Anne Brown
How to be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman
Jellybird by Lezanne Clannachan
The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks
Never Forget by Lisa Cutts
The Things We Never Said by Susan Elliot Wright
Chaplin and Company by Mave Fellowes
Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle
The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland
Nothing is Heavy by Vicki Jarrett
The Night Rainbow by Claire King
The Last King of Lydia by Tim Leach
Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach
Natural Causes by James Oswald
Reviver by Seth Patrick
The City Of Shadows by Michael Russell
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
The Twins by Saskia Sarginson
The Mouseproof Kitchen by Saira Shah
A Song from Dead Lips by William Shaw
City of Blood by MD Villiers
What Lies Within by Tom Vowler
The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait
Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston
She Rises by Kate Worsley

Nominations
The Beauty of Murder by AK Benedict
Veronica Britton: Chronic Detective by NP Boyce
City of Devils by Diana Bretherick
A is for Angelica by Iain Broome
Ten Things I've Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler
Breath of Africa by JL Bwye
Idiopathy by Sam Byers
The Bone Dragon by Alexia Casale
An Englishwoman in New York by Anne-Marie Casey
Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy
The Scarlet Thief by Paul Fraser Collard
The Gamal by Ciaran Collins
Byron Easy by Jude Cook
The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton
In Too Deep by Bea Davenport
Going Back by Rachel English
The House of Journalists by Tim Finch
Eloise by Judy Finnigan
Billy and Me by Giovanna Fletcher
War Paint by Alicia Foster
Seoul Survivors by Naomi Foyle
Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi
Lacey's House by Joanne Graham
Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders by Kate Griffin
Clay by Melissa Harrison
A Capital Union by Victoria Hendry
The Almost Lizard by James Higgerson
Hunters in the Snow by Daisy Hildyard
Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman
The Hive by Gill Hornby
The Emergence of Judy Taylor by Angela Jackson
Snapper by Brian Kimberling
The Specimen by Martha Lea
The First Book of Calamity Leek by Paula Lichtarowicz
Where The Devil Can't Go by Anya Lipska
Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay
Some Day I'll Find You by Richard Madeley
The Fields by Kevin Maher
Intermission by Owen Martell
Precious Things by Colette McBeth
You Had Me at Hello by Mhairi McFarlane
Habit by Stephen McGeagh
The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson
Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon by Simon Okotie
The Summer We All Ran Away by Cassandra Parkin
The Second Life of Amy Archer by RS Pateman
Amity and Sorrow by Peggy Riley
Call It Dog by Marli Roode
The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter
Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter
Malarky by Anakana Schofield
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
Turn of the Tide by Margaret Skea
The Story of Before by Susan Stairs
Homecoming by Susie Steiner
Theatre of the Gods by M Suddain
Stretching It by Mandy Sutter
Entertaining Strangers by Jonathan Taylor
The Last Telegram by Liz Trenow
Magificent Joe by James Wheatley
Lost and Found by Tom Winter
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf
The Girl Below by Bianca Zander
Eddie The Kid by Leo Zeilig

2012-2013 Waverton Good Read Award

Winner
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Shortlist
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Rhumba by Elaine Proctor
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
The House on Paradise Street by Sofka Zinovieff

Longlist
So It Is by Liam Murray Bell
The Harbour by Francesca Brill
Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne
The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
Out of It by Selma Dabbagh
A Small Fortune by Rosie Dastgir
The Coward's Tale by Vanessa Gebbie
The Book of Summers by Emylia Hall
Jubilee by Shelley Harris
The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals by Wendy Jones
Alys, Always by Harriet Lane
This is How it Ends by Kathleen MacMahon
The Dark Winter by David Mark
After The Lockout by Darran McCann
The Other Half of Me by Morgan McCarthy
Disappearing Home by Deborah Morgan
Flesh and Blood by Mark Peterson
Crossbones Yard by Kate Rhodes
Secrets of the Tides by Hannah Richell
The Innocents by Francesca Segal
Ashenden by Elizabeth Wilhide

Nominations
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer
The Doll Princess by Tom Benn
The Choir Mistress by Carol Bunyan
Assignment of Death by Christine Conwell
Sleeping Patterns by JR Crook
Breathing on Glass by Jennifer Cryer
Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott
The Jacobites' Apprentice by David Ebsworth
If This is Home by Stuart Evers
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Absolution by Patrick Flanery
The White Lie by Andrea Gillies
Landfall by Helen Gordon
Sleepwalkers by Tom Grieves
Tideline by Penny Hancock
The Murder Wall by Mari Hannah
In Her Blood by Annie Hauxwell
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger
Mountains of the Moon by IJ Kay
Central Reservation by Will Le Fleming
A Cold Season by Alison Littlewood
The Incident by Kenneth Macleod
Rare Earth by Paul Mason
The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen
The Fall by Claire McGowan
The Banker's Daughter by Emran Mian
The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
Park Lane by Frances Osborne
Glass Geishas by Susanna Quinn
Signs of Life by Anna Raverat
Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid
Snake Ropes by Jess Richards
Seldom Seen by Sarah Ridgard
The English Monster by Lloyd Shepherd
Can We Still Be Friends by Alexandra Shulman
Genie and Paul by Natasha Soobramanien
Communion Town by Sam Thompson
Advent by James Treadwell
Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams

2011-2012 Waverton Good Read Award

Winner
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson

Shortlist
A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Snowdrops by AD Miller

Longlist
Frozen Out by Quentin Bates
The Apothecary's Daughter by Charlotte Betts
What Women Want by Fanny Blake
The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown
Solomon's Song by Sarah De Carvalho
The Somnambulist by Essie Fox
The Trouble with Alice by Olivia Glazebrook
The Hollow Man by Oliver Harris
Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
White Heat by MJ McGrath
Mice by Gordon Reece
Invisibles by Ed Siegle
Sanctus by Simon Toyne
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman

Nominations
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Wall of Days by Alastair Bruce
The Tenderloin by John Butler
London Calling by James Craig
Cuckoo by Julia Crouch
4 a.m. by Nina De La Mer
The Generation Game by Sophie Duffy
The Wordsmith's Tale by Stephen Edden
That Summer in Ischia by Penny Feeny
The Cure by Rachel Genn
The Last Day of Term by Francis Gilbert
Apostle Rising by Richard Godwin
Postcards from the Heart by Ella Griffin
Ophelia in Pieces by Clare Jacob
The Guardian Angel's Journal by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Exiled by Shireen Jilla
An Agent of Deceit by Chris Morgan Jones
Smoke Portrait by Trilby Kent
Dog Binary by Alex Macdonald
The Intimates by Guy Mankowski
Solace by Belinda McKeon
Kiss Me Quick by Danny Miller
Today by David Miller
A Book for All and None by Clare Morgan
English Slacker by Chris Morton
The Harlot's Press by Helen Pike
A Surrey State of Affairs by Ceri Radford
Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota
The Coffee Story by Peter Salmon
The Afrika Reich by Guy Saville
Pub Walks in Underhill Country by Nat Segnit
Generation F by Winston Smith
L'Auberge by Julia Stagg
Flick by Abigail Tarttelin
RSVP by Helen Warner
The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams
The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood
We All Ran Into The Sunlight by Natalie Young

2010-2011 Waverton Good Read Award

Winner
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Shortlist
Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson
The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell
The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
Luke and Jon by Robert Williams

Longlist
The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott
Before the Earthquake by Maria Allen
Making Shore by Sara Allerton
Glasshopper by Isabel Ashdown
The Missing by Jane Casey
The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly
Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi
Sacred Treason by James Forrester
My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
The Soldier's Song by Alan Monaghan
The Master of Bruges by Terence Morgan
The Search by Maureen Myant
The Holy Thief by William Ryan
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne
Dry Season by Dan Smith
Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons
American Devil by Oliver Stark
The Legacy by Katherine Webb

Nominations
Indeterminate Creatures by Alan Apperley
Pattern of Shadows by Judith Barrow
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
Playground by Samuel Bonner
The Noise of Strangers by Robert Dickinson
The Sun Sharer by Jack George Edmunson
Walking in Pimlico by Ann Featherstone
The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald
Farundell by LR Fredericks
The Road to the Sea by Ciara Hegarty
Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller
The Clay Dreaming by Ed Hillyer
The House with Blue Shutters by Lisa Hilton
Daughters of Fortune by Tara Hyland
Micka by Frances Kay
London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp
Advice for Strays by Justine Kilkerr
Rupture by Simon Lelic
A Vision of Loveliness by Louise Levene
Vintage by Maxine Linnell
And This is True by Emily Mackie
The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie McGill
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Salt Blue by Gillian Morgan
Foreign Bodies by Candy Neubert
Repeat it Today with Tears by Anne Peile
Bad Day in Black Rock by Kevin Power
This Bleeding City by Alex Preston
Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson
Grass Stains by Kirsty Robinson
Quilt by Nicholas Royle
Foolish Lessons in Life and Love by Penny Rudge
Cinema Blue by Sue Rulliere
The Still Point by Amy Sackville
Murder at Mansfield Park by Lynn Shepherd
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
The Great Lie by M Stanford-Smith
The Lady's Slipper by Deborah Swift
The Temple Goers by Aatish Taseer
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
The Whole Wide Beauty by Emily Woof
Kissing Alice by Jacqueline Yallop

2009-2010 Waverton Good Read Award

Winner
The Ghosts of Eden by Andrew Sharp

Shortlist
Girl In A Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
The Coroner by MR Hall
The Street Philosopher by Matthew Plampin
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn

Longlist
The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry
The Book of Shadows by Paula Brackston
All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell
The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale
Days of Grace by Catherine Hall
An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay
The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum by Bronia Kita
The Blue Notebook by James A Levine
Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
The Opposite Bastard by Simon Packham
Shame on You by Clara Salaman
The J-Word by Andrew Sanger
The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
Black Rock by Amanda Smyth
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama

Nominations
Forest Gate by Peter Akinti
A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
True Murder by Yaba Badoe
All the Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell
Class by Jane Beaton
Seahorses Are Real by Zillah Bethell
Citizen by Charlie Brooks
McNaughten by Sian Busby
The Art of Losing by Rebecca Connell
The Overnight Fame of Steffi McBride by Andrew Crofts
The Isle of Dogs by Daniel Davies
Welcome to Life by Alice De Smith
Wild Oats by Michael Edwards
Mr Toppit by Charles Elton
Footnotes to Sex by Mia Farlane
Never Never by David Gaffney
Even by Andrew Grant
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
50 Ways to Find a Lover by Lucy-Anne Holmes
Soothing Music for Stray Cats by Jayne Joso
Swimming by Nicola Keegan
Baby Barista and the Art of War by Tim Kevan
The Sweet Smell of Decay by Paul Lawrence
Me Cheeta by James Lever
The Incendiary's Trail by James McCreet
All the Colours of the Town by Liam McIlvanney
John the Revelator by Peter Murphy
Afterlife by Sean O'Brien
Among Thieves by Mez Packer
Talk of the Town by Jacob Polley
Kill-Grief by Caroline Rance
Designs for a Happy Home by Matthew Reynolds
Little Gods by Anna Richards
The Letters by Fiona Robyn
Pynter Bender by Jacob Ross
The Devil’s Music by Jane Rusbridge
Dog Fellow's Ghost by Gavin Smith
Hammer by Sara Stockbridge
The Reinvention of Ivy Brown by Roberta Taylor
The Alternative Hero by Tim Thornton
Dr Ragab's Universal Language by Robert Twigger
Love Me by Gemma Weekes
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld