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Caleb Azumah Nelson, A K Blakemore and Ayòbámi Adébáyò shortlisted for £20k Dylan Thomas Prize
Caleb Azumah Nelson, A K Blakemore and Ayòbámi Adébáyò are among those shortlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize with five of the six titles published by independent presses. Worth £20,000, this global accolade recognises exceptional literary talent aged 39 or under, celebrating the international world of fiction in all its forms including poetry, novels, short stories and drama.
Edith Holler
Edward Carey. Riverhead, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-18890-3 Carey (Little) draws on fairy tales and Shakespeare for a dazzling bildungsroman. In 1901 Norwich, 12-year-old Edith Holler lives in her family’s dilapidated theater, where she fills her days reading books on the city’s past. From them she learns that hundreds of children have inexplicably died or vanished from Norwich over the centuries.
The Glutton
A.K. Blakemore. Scribner, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3062-2 Set in the last turbulent decades of the 18th century, Blakemore’s savory second novel (after The Manningtree Witches) is loosely based on the life of the Great Tarare, a French peasant renowned for his insatiable hunger. The story begins with Tarare chained to a hospital bed near Versailles, recounting his story to an incredulous nun named Sister Perpetué.
Sea-Fever
After dark I call you up, just to hear the weather report, that the nights are drawing in now, and how much you paid for your latest pair of trousers. You’ll tell me the one about PLUTO, the giant pipeline rolling out under the Channel on a steel drum, how it kept the tanks fed for our boys on the continent, how the ice cream hut along the bay was really a pump in disguise, like those Ruperts that kept the Führer guessing.
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