Longlist Announced For Desmond Elliott Award

Nathan Filer’s novel amongst the long list for the Desmond Elliott Prize

The Shock of The Fall by Nathan Filer is amongst the ten authors who made the long list for this year’s Desmond Elliott Prize. This award celebrates first time British and Irish authors.

Nathan was also the recipient of the Costa Book of the Year Award in January. Other authors who made the list include Kate Clanchy, Donal Ryan and Eimear McBride for her novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing which took nine years to publish after being rejected several times.

The shortlist will be announced on 26th May and the overall winner will be announced on 3rd July and will win £10,000. Good luck to all the nominated authors.

Here’s the long list in full.

• The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison
• Idiopathy by Sam Byers
• Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy
• The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
• Sedition by Katharine Grant
• The Dynamite Room by Jason Hewitt
• A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
• The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
• Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera
• Ballistics by D. W. Wilson

The Shock of The Fall is our book club pick this month. To take part in the discussion, click here.

To find out more about the Desmond Elliott Prize, click here.

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