First Book Award Nominees
Nominees for the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award have been announced and include several titles of genre interest:
- Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Holt)
- Leila, Prayaag Akbar (Simon & Schuster)
- The House With Chicken Legs, Sophie Anderson (Scholastic)
- Swansong, Kerry Andrew (Jonathan Cape)
- Out of the Blue, Sophie Cameron (Roaring Brook)
- In the Valley of the Sun, Andy Davidson (Skyhorse)
- The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, Imogen Hermes Gowar (Harper)
- The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh (Doubleday)
- Black Snow Falling, LJ MacWhirter (Scotland Street)
- Kintu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Oneworld)
- Elmet, Fiona Mozley (Algonquin)
- Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar, Olga Wojtas (Contraband)
The winner will be chosen by public vote, open until October 12, 2018. For more information and a complete list of nominees, see the award website.
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