Desmond Elliott longlist announced

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Desmond Elliott longlist announced Nathan Filer, Elmear McBride and Donal Ryan have all been longlisted for the 2014 Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novelists. Filer has been longlisted for The Shock of the Fall (HarperCollins), winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award, McBride for A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Galley Beggar Press), which won the Goldsmiths Prize, and Ryan for The Spinning Heart (Doubleday Ireland), winner of the Guardian First Book Award. The other books in the running for the £10,000 award are: The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison (Granta); Idiopathy by Sam Byers (Fourth Estate); Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy (Picador); Sedition by Katharine Grant (Virago); The Dynamite Room by Jason Hewitt (Simon & Schuster); Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera (William Heinemann); and Ballistics by D. W. Wilson (Bloomsbury). The shortlist will be announced on 26th May, with the prize awarded on 3rd July.

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