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Thought that I would start a new thread about the various book prizes that are announced regularly

First up, the longlist for Wainwright Prize is announced today:

Great idea Paul, not heard of that one, but I like it.

Some brilliant books there, There just isn't enough time to read all these. Still not read last years winner yet :-(

I have read all of this years selection

Wow. Nice one.

So come on...pick the one you think should win. :-)

The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland or Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife

The Bailey's prizewinner has just been announced:

You beat me to posting it Cathy! I haven't read it, have you?

Not yet, but I've read a couple on the longlist which were both great.

It's great - brutal, terrifying and wholly original.

A friend recommended Alderman's The Liars' Gospel so I've got that on my pile too.

Has anyone got any predictions for the Mann Booker longlist on Thursday?

So the Mann Booker Longlist is:

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (US) (Faber & Faber)
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Ireland) (Faber & Faber)
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (US) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan-UK) (Hamish Hamilton)
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Ireland) (Canongate)
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (UK) (4th Estate)
Elmet by Fiona Mozley (UK) (JM Originals)
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (India) (Hamish Hamilton)
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (US) (Bloomsbury)
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (UK-Pakistan) (Bloomsbury)
Autumn by Ali Smith (UK) (Hamish Hamilton)
Swing Time by Zadie Smith (UK) (Hamish Hamilton)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (US) (Fleet)

Have you read any, Paul?
Lincoln in the Bardo is on my list - I've read some good reviews of it.

None of them, though I want to read Exit West

Only one I've heard of is the Underground Railroad

I've read Lincoln in the Bardo (which I loved) and am currently reading Swing Time. Would like to read Autumn too

The winner for the Wainwright Prize was announced yesterday:

Also, the Royal Society Shortlist was announced:

Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of the Mathematical Universe by Eugenia Cheng
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia FinePeter Godfrey-Smith
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's by Joseph Jebelli
To be a machine by Mark O'Connell
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

Some interesting titles there.

I have read two of them, and just reserved the rest from the library

I've good two on my massive tbr list

The Not the Booker Shortlist was announced today:

Sounds a fun idea, Paul.

Good selection of titles on the Baille Gifford longlist:

Not read any of them but Border: A Journey to The Edge of Europe, Kapka Kassabova (Granta Books) looks interesting.

I have read two so far

Man Booker shortlist announced today:

Congratulations to George Saunders for winning the Booker with Lincoln in the Bardo

That one sounds quite interesting, might have to give it a go.

Congratulations to David France for winning the Baillie Gifford prize with How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

Costa Shortlists have just been announced:

2017 Costa Novel Award shortlist

Jon McGregor for Reservoir 13 (4th Estate)
Stef Penney for Under a Pole Star (Quercus)
Kamila Shamsie for Home Fire (Bloomsbury Circus)
Sarah Winman for Tin Man (Tinder Press)

2017 Costa First Novel Award shortlist

Xan Brooks for The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times (Salt)
Karl Geary for Montpelier Parade (Harvill Secker)
Gail Honeyman for Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (HarperCollins)
Rebecca F. John for The Haunting of Henry Twist (Serpent’s Tail)

2017 Costa Biography Award shortlist

Xiaolu Guo for Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up (Chatto & Windus)
Caroline Moorehead for A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (Chatto & Windus)
Rebecca Stott for In The Days of Rain (4th Estate)
Professor Stephen Westaby for Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table (HarperCollins)

2017 Costa Poetry Award shortlist

Kayo Chingonyi for Kumukanda (Chatto & Windus)
Helen Dunmore for Inside the Wave (Bloodaxe Books)
Sinéad Morrissey for On Balance (Carcanet)
Richard Osmond for Useful Verses (Picador)

2017 Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist

Sarah Crossan for Moonrise (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
Lissa Evans for Wed Wabbit (David Fickling Books)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave for The Island at the End of Everything (Chicken House)
Katherine Rundell for The Explorer (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)

Wellcome Book Prize Longlist announced today:

Some interesting titles there.

I have read two of them. Just checking what ones the library has at the moment

The vaccine race looks the best, might give that one a go.

To be a machine is worth reading too

Stay With Me is very good.

Re. 2017 Costa Novel Award shortlist

Jon McGregor for Reservoir 13 (4th Estate) - loved it - 5 stars (10/10)
Stef Penney for Under a Pole Star (Quercus)
Kamila Shamsie for Home Fire (Bloomsbury Circus) - got from library
Sarah Winman for Tin Man (Tinder Press) - loved it - 5 stars (9.5/10)

Women's Prize announced their longlist at midnight:

H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
Home FireÌý²ú²â Kamila Shamsie
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Mann Booker International Longlist announced today:



Author (nationality), Translator, Title (imprint)
� Laurent Binet (France), Sam Taylor, The 7th Function of Language (Harvill Secker)
� Javier Cercas (Spain), Frank Wynne, The Impostor (MacLehose Press)
� Virginie Despentes (France), Frank Wynne, Vernon Subutex 1 (MacLehose Press)
� Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), Susan Bernofsky, Go, Went, Gone (Portobello Books)
� Han Kang (South Korea), Deborah Smith, The White Book (Portobello Books)
� Ariana Harwicz (Argentina), Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff, Die, My Love (Charco Press)
� László Krasznahorkai (Hungary), John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes, The World Goes On (Tuskar Rock Press)
� Antonio Muñoz Molina (Spain), Camilo A. Ramirez, Like a Fading Shadow (Tuskar Rock Press)
� Christoph Ransmayr (Austria), Simon Pare, The Flying Mountain (Seagull Books)
� Ahmed Saadawi (Iraq), Jonathan Wright, Frankenstein in Baghdad (Oneworld)
� Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), Jennifer Croft, Flights (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
� Wu Ming-Yi (Taiwan), Darryl Sterk, The Stolen Bicycle (Text Publishing)
� Gabriela Ybarra (Spain), Natasha Wimmer, The Dinner Guest (Harvill Secker)

Wow I've actually heard of one of those authors, Virginie Despentes

Wow I’m reading one of women’s prize list, Eleanor oliphant etc. Jason. We are blessed

Those writers are soooo lucky :-)

Of course.

Two Book Prize announcements this week:

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Thanks Paul for sharing those. I like it when I recognise some titles in these awards, makes them feel a bit more relevant.

As it happens, I collected Stay with Me from the library this very morning.

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine sounds like quite something, I am possibly too squeamish.

Desmond Elliot Prize longlist was revealed last week:

You know, I don't think I've ever read a book the same year it came out. They can be quite expensive and the library doesn't carry them. I wonder where these other people are getting them from?

Cracking longlist from the Wainwright Prize for 2018: