Congratulations to Ted Gorton, author of Only The Dead, for being shortlisted among London’s literati!

The Authors’ Club announced the shortlist for the annual Best First Novel Award 2020 yesterday. The shortlisted titles are as follows, with the judges’ assessments:

Do book prizes count these days, other than boosting book sales and giving literary book chatterers something to chat about?

Whatever your point of view, when it comes to contemporary fiction, it’s an honour just to be nominated.

So Quartet’s author T.J. Gorton

We're extremely excited to announce that Allan Massie's End Games in Bordeaux has been longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. It looks like he's up against some great competition too.