John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2007
As you will be aware, the last few months have been particularly challenging for Booktrust. Our new funding settlement with the Department for Education has allowed us to protect the universal offer of the national bookgifting programmes, but it has nonetheless forced us to undertake a thorough review of all of the prizes and projects in the Booktrust portfolio.
As a result of this review, we have taken the difficult decision not to run the John Llewellyn Rhys in Autumn 2011. This Prize is incredibly important, highlighting and celebrating the best new books by writers under 35, as well as being very dear to Booktrust. We have not taken this decision lightly and we strongly intend to bring back the Prize with a bang in the very near future.
Do contact Claire Shanahan, the Prizes and Awards Manager, if you have any questions or suggestions.
2006-07
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Winner
The Carhullan Army
FaberThe narrator of the novel, known simply as Sister, decides to leave her drab existence in Rith. Her carefully hoarded newspaper clippings about the Carhullan commune and its charismatic leaders Jackie and Veronique inspire her to escape from the city in search of the women. Her welcome, when she finally arrives, is not the one she was expecting.
The Carhullan Army
Sarah Hall
Winner, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
The narrator of the novel, known simply as Sister, decides to leave her drab existence in Rith. Her carefully hoarded newspaper clippings about the Carhullan commune and its charismatic leaders Jackie and Veronique inspire her to escape from the city in search of the women. Her welcome, when she finally arrives, is not the one she was expecting.
Publisher: Faber
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall lives and works in Cumbria. Her first novel, Haweswater, won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize Best First Book; her second, The Electric Michelangelo, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004. Her work has been translated into ten languages.
Shortlist
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The Carhullan Army
Faber
The Carhullan Army
Sarah Hall
Shortlisted, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
The narrator of the novel, known simply as Sister, decides to leave her drab existence in Rith. Her carefully hoarded newspaper clippings about the Carhullan commune and its charismatic leaders Jackie and Veronique inspire her to escape from the city in search of the women. Her welcome, when she finally arrives, is not the one she was expecting.
Publisher: Faber
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall lives and works in Cumbria. Her first novel, Haweswater, won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize Best First Book; her second, The Electric Michelangelo, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004. Her work has been translated into ten languages.
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Blood Kin
Atlantic Books
Blood Kin
Ceridwen Dovey
Shortlisted, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the President.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Inglorious
Faber
Inglorious
Joanna Kavenna
Shortlisted, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Rosa Lane is a dynamic journalist in her thirties, already the picture of London achievement. But one afternoon soon after the death of her mother, staring at her computer screen at work, she fails to see the point, walks out of her job - and begins her long fall from modern grace.
Publisher: Faber
Joanna KavennaJoanna Kavenna
By the age of 24, Joanna Kavenna had written seven apparently unpublishable novels, as well as a doctorate. She spent some years trying to make a living by freelance writing, combining this with disastrous stints as an amanuensis.
Eventually, exile seemed the best option, so she spent some years living in America, Germany, Scandinavia and France. This habit for nervous travel eventually produced her first published book, The Ice Museum, after which she lived in Paris and London while writing Inglorious, which is her first novel and won the 2008 Orange Award for New Writers. -
The Wild Places
Granta Books
The Wild Places
Robert Macfarlane
Shortlisted, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
At once a wonder voyage, an adventure story, an exercise in visionary cartography, and a work of natural history, it is written in a style and a form as unusual as the places with which it is concerned.
Publisher: Granta Books
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Joshua Spassky
Vintage
Joshua Spassky
Gwendoline Riley
Shortlisted, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
American playwright Joshua and English writer Natalie share a vexed five-year history of sporadic encounters, explosive drunkenness and failed intercourse, all spliced with the occasional sad intimation of true love.
Publisher: Vintage
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Occupational Hazards
Picador
Occupational Hazards
Rory Stewart
Shortlisted, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Rory Stewart's inside account of the attempt to re-build a nation, the errors made, the misunderstandings and insumountable difficulties encountered, reveals an Iraq hidden from most foreign journalists and soldiers.
Publisher: Picador
Judges
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Suzi FeaySuzi Feay has been writing about books for 20 years at Time Out, the Independent on Sunday and the Financial Times.
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Peter HobbsPeter Hobbs is a novelist and short story writer. His debut novel The Short Day Dying (Faber, 2005) won a Betty Trask Prize, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His first collection of stories, I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (Faber, 2006), was nominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His stories have been published in numerous anthologies and journals, and have been commissioned for broadcast on Radio 4. He is also the author of a very short novel, In The Orchard, The Swallows (Faber, 2012). As well as being a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation, he has taught courses at a range of events and literary festivals. Since 2008 he has been a writer-in-residence for the charity First Story.
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Michèle RobertsMichèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her memoir Paper Houses was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in June 2007. She has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in 2010 in Mud - Stories of Sex and Love (Virago). Half-English and half-French, Michèle Roberts lives in London and in the Mayenne, France. She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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