BOOK AWARDS
Guardian First Book Award 2005
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 seventh 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)
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters published by Fourth Estate - ISBN 0007200366
Shortlist (announced end October)
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
Farm: The story of one Family and the English Countryside by Richard Benson
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Longlist (announced end August)
| Title (fiction) | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| To a Fault | Nick Laird | Faber & Faber | 0571223826 |
| 26A | Diana Evans | Chatto & Windus | 0701177969 |
| Sightseeing | Rattawut Lapcharoensap | Atlantic | 1843543710 |
| Misfortune | Wesley Stace | Jonathan Cape | 0224072765 |
| The Harmony Silk Factory | Tash Aw | Fourth Estate | 000718204x |
| Title (non-fiction) | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam | Reza Aslan | William Heinemann | 0434012629 |
| The Farm | Richard Benson | Hamish Hamilton | 0241142229 |
| Stuart: A Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | Fourth Estate | 0007200366 |
| Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found | Suketu Mehta | Review | 0747221596 |
| The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule | Joanna Kavenna | Viking | 0670913952 |
