The Guardian First Book prize longlist has been announced. The books are:
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (left)
By Yiyun Li (4th Estate), stories
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
By Carrie Tiffany, above (Picador), fiction
Harbor
By Lorraine Adams (Portobello), fiction
John Donne: The Reformed Soul
By John Stubbs (Viking), biography
Lonesome George: The Lives and Loves of a Conservation Icon
By Henry Nicholls (Palgrave Macmillan), natural history
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveller
By Jason Roberts (Simon & Schuster), biography
Running for the Hills
By Horatio Clare (John Murray), memoir
Poppy Shakespeare
By Clare Allan (Bloomsbury), fiction
Waiting for the Night-Rowers
By Roger Moulson (Enitharmon), poetry
In the Country of Men
By Hisham Matar (Viking), fiction
Read more.
My favourite first book: F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise.
the only one i've read is the yiyun li 'a thousand years of good prayers' and i love it. want to borrow?
Posted by: bibliobibuli | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 23:04