Tess Gunty has won the inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize.

Congratulations to Tess Gunty, whose critically acclaimed debut novel The Rabbit Hutch has just won the inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize. The novel (about four teenagers—recently aged out of the state foster-care system—living together in an apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest), was selected as winner by a panel of Waterstones booksellers from a shortlist […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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Previous winner Sharon Olds is up against debut poets Anthony Anaxagorou and Jay Bernard on the 10-strong shortlist for the 2019 T S Eliot Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Quercus and Flatiron buy Hausmann's debut bestseller

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Two British historians among finalists for $75k Cundill History Prize

The $75,000 Cundill History Prize – the largest prize for a work of non-fiction in English, open to publishers worldwide – has announced three "outstanding" women as its finalists for 2019, two of whom are British. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Ismail Kadare Wins Prestigious 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Ronan Farrow does goofy voices in his dead-serious MeToo audiobook

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David Fickling Books signs Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse

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Walker pre-empts Joseph Coelho’s first middle-grade fiction series

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HarperCollins triumphs in 9-way auction for slushpile debut Girl A

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