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JAMES TAIT BLACK SHORTLIST

 

The shortlists for the latest James Tait Black Memorial Prizes have been announced. The prizes are the country's oldest literary awards, comprising two £10,000 awards for books published in 2007, one for novels and one for biographies.

 

Fiction shortlist:

Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben
The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
A Far Country by Daniel Mason
Salvage by Gee Williams


Biography shortlist:
Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell by Michael Gray
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves

 

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