The Bookseller reports that, “in the short story category, the shortlist features ‘My Flood Book’ by Greg Beatty, ‘Swine Tags’ by Tom Leins, ‘The Toll Bridge’ by Arendse Lund, ‘Like Glue’ by Kimberly Shaw along with Moinet’s ‘Tremor,’ In flash fiction, ‘Cornered’ by Moinet is pitted alongside ‘Serial Killers’ by Adele Evershed, ‘Two Faced” by M.J. Harbottle, ‘Pale on the Gatepost’ by Alison Ringrose and Ros Thomas’ ‘How to Leave Your Childhood Behind.’”
The winners are to be declared on November 25, which by no coincidence will also be the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
There will be no prize given in the original novel category this year; it is being held over until 2022. Previous recipients of the honor are Jock Serong’s On the Java Ridge (2018), Samantha Harvey’s The Western Wind (2019), and Attica Locke’s Heaven, My Home (2020).
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Also from across the pond comes word that this year’s Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist has made room for only one mystery novel, Janice Hallett’s The Appeal (Viper), a cozyish yarn that, The Guardian says, finds “law students Charlotte and Femi investigat[ing] a mystery in the sleepy town of Lower Lockwood, dealing with everything from an amateur dramatic society’s disastrous staging of All My Sons to a dodgy charity appeal for a child’s medical treatment.”Among the 12 additional works vying for this commendation, sponsored by one of the UK’s largest book retailers, are Around the World in 80 Plants, by Jonathan Drori (Orion); Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber and Faber); Ariadne, by Jennifer Saint (Headline); The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, by Paul McCartney, edited by Paul Muldoon (Allen Lane); and They Both Die at the End, by Adam Silvera (Simon & Schuster).
The winner is espected to be announced on December 2.
(Hat tip to In Reference to Murder.)
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