BOOK AWARDS
Guardian First Book Award 2008
http://books.guardian.co.uk/firstbook
The Guardian first book award was established in 1999 to reward the finest new literary talent with a £10,000 prize for an author's first book. Now in its eighth year, the award is open to writing across all genres. It is unique among book awards as debut works of fiction are judged alongside those of non-fiction.
The judging panel, chaired by the Guardian's literary editor Claire Armitstead, will award the winning author with £10,000 and an advertising package within the Guardian and Observer.
A series of regional reading groups, run through Waterstone's bookstores, will assist the judges in making their final selection of shortlisted works.
Winner (announced early December)
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross published by Fourth Estate - ISBN 9781841154756
Shortlist (announced end October)
| Title (fiction) | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| A Case of Exploding Mangoes | Mohammed Hanif | Jonathan Cape | 9780224082044 |
| God's Own Country | Ross Raisin | Viking | 9780670917341 |
| A Fraction of the Whole | Steve Toltz | Hamish Hamilton | 9780241143902 |
| Title (non-fiction) | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War | Owen Matthews | Bloomsbury | 9780747591818 |
| The Rest is Noise | Alex Ross | Fourth Estate | 9781841154756 |
Longlist (announced end August)
| Title (fiction) | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Say You're One Of Them | Uwem Akpan | Abacus | 9780349120638 |
| A Case of Exploding Mangoes | Mohammed Hanif | Jonathan Cape | 9780224082044 |
| The Outcast | Sadie Jones | Chatto & Windus | 9780701181758 |
| God's Own Country | Ross Raisin | Viking | 9780670917341 |
| Sunday at the Skin Launderette | Kathryn Simmonds | Seren | 9781854114617 |
| A Fraction of the Whole | Steve Toltz | Hamish Hamilton | 9780241143902 |
| Title (non-fiction) | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Empires of the Indus | Alice Albinia | John Murray | 9780719560033 |
| Me Cheeta: The Autobiography | Cheeta | Fourth Estate | 9780007278633 |
| Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War | Owen Matthews | Bloomsbury | 9780747591818 |
| The Rest is Noise | Alex Ross | Fourth Estate | 9781841154756 |
