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Amanda Smyth is shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize for BLACK ROCK
14 May 2010
The prize is administered by the Society of Authors.
2010 judges Russell Celyn Jones, Lindsey Davis and Frances Fyfield have shortlisted six books for the £4k award which will be awarded on June 15th at the Society of Authors’ Awards.
The shortlist:
The Rotting Spot by Valerie Laws (Red Squirrel Press)
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin (Atlantic)
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn (Cape)
Beauty by Raphael Selbourne (Tindal Street Press)
Black Rock by Amanda Smyth (Serpent’s Tail)
Kissing Alice by Jacqueline Yallop (Atlantic)
The McKitterick Prize is for a first novel by an author over the age of 40, and was endowed by the late Tom McKitterick.