Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Hanging Hill
Snowdrops
The Cypress House
The End of the Wasp Season
The Lock Artist
The Villa Triste
White Heat
At the same time, the Man Booker Prize longlist has also been unveiled, a literary award worth £60,000 to the winning author. It contains the following books, authors and publishers:
The Sense of an Ending
On Canaan’s Side
Jamrach’s Menagerie
The Sisters Brothers
Half Blood Blues: From Berlin to Paris. Two Friends. One Betrayal
A Cupboard Full of Coats
The Stranger’s Child
Pigeon English
The Last Hundred Days
Snowdrops
Far to Go
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Derby Day
Now at this stage we’d love to break out a Venn diagram for you to point out that the only book common to both lists is Snowdrops by AD Miller, but our Excel skills aren’t that hot and getting it online might prove to be even more of a headache. So just take our word for it – if you’re at all influenced by longlists and have a scientific approach to book purchasing based on them, that’s the book to read.
Other Daggers to be awarded include the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, the John Creasy New Blood Dagger and the ITV3 People’s Best Seller Dagger. You can view these longlists here, but put 22 August in your diary because that’s when the shortlists for these prizes will be announced. And, on 1 September ITV3 will begin airing a six-part documentary series called the A to Z of Crime which will look at the work of five authors selected from the longlists we’ve just discussed. We can’t wait!
The Man Booker shortlist will be published 6 September.