BOOK AWARDS
Guardian First Book Award 2006
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)
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li published by Fourth Estate - ISBN 9780007196623
Shortlist (announced end October)
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Harbor by Lorraine Adams
Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan
Longlist (announced end August)
| Title (fiction) | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living | Carrie Tiffany | Picador | 9780330437769 |
| Harbor | Lorraine Adams | Portobello Books | 9781846270345 |
| Poppy Shakespeare | Clare Allan | Bloomsbury | 9780747580461 |
| Waiting for the Night-Rowers | Roger Moulson | Enitharmon | 9781904634263 |
| A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | Yiyun Li | Fourth Estate | 9780007196623 |
| In The Country of Men | Hisham Matar | Viking | 9780670916399 |
| Title (non-fiction) | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Donne: The Reformed Soul | John Stubbs | Viking | 9780670915101 |
| Lonesome George: The Lives and Loves of a Conservation Icon | Henry Nicholls | Palgrave | 9781403945761 |
| A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveller. | Jason Roberts | Simon & Schuster | 9780743239660 |
| Running for the Hills | Horatio Clare | John Murray | 9780719565380 |
