Débuts strong on Orwell shortlist

Two début authors have made the shortlists for this year’s Orwell Prize for political writing. Dan Davies has made the £3,000 Book Prize shortlist for his book about Jimmy Savile, In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile (Quercus). The other first-time writer on the list is Louisa Lim, who is shortlisted for The People’s Republic of Amnesia (Oxford University Press), a look at how the events in Tiananmen Square on 4th June 1989 changed China and how the country has rewritten its history. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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