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Another year, another brilliant round-up of books. We’re commemorating the year with seven Books of 2023 selected across Swift and Forum.
Nick Hunt’s ‘richly imagined’ debut novel Red Smoking Mirror has been shortlisted for the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place.
The second novel in Anne Mette Hancock’s Kaldan and Schäfer series, The Collector, has been included in the shortlist for the Best Crime Novel in Translation Award as part of the 2023 Crime Fiction Lover Awards.
Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children by Hannah Barnes ‘unearths the facts to present an alarming story of medical scandal’ according to the Judges of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
Anne Mette Hancock‘s ‘dark and compelling’ crime novel The Corpse Flower has made the shortlist for the 2023 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel.
Congratulations to Hannah Barnes, whose Sunday Times bestselling book of reportage Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
Anne Mette Hancock‘s bestselling crime novel The Corpse Flower continues to be recognised for its excellence. This ‘ingenious’ read (Daily Mail) has made the longlist for the 2023 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year alongside eleven other novels.
We’re thrilled to see Ellen Hawley’s novel Other People Manage included on the Polari Prize longlist. ‘Rich in the pleasures of good storytelling … so intelligent about the essential raggedness of real lives’ – TLS
‘Master stylist’ Daniel Wiles’ debut novel has won the Betty Trask Prize in the 2023 SoA Awards.
Congratulations to Hannah Barnes, whose Sunday Times bestselling and ‘deeply reported, scrupulously non-judgmental’ book Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children has been shortlisted in the 2023 Orwell Prizes for the Political Writing Book Prize.
Anne Mette Hancock’s bestselling novel The Corpse Flower has been longlisted for the 2023 Crime Writers Association Daggers Awards in The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger category.
Congratulations to Dan Charnas for his recent win at the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm was praised as ‘a beautiful and daring rendering of a brilliant young man with all too human qualities and frailties, who died tragically young’. Judges say: ‘Charnas has created perhaps the truest tribute to Dilla and his legacy: a work of funky artistic achievement’.