Rose Boyt talks to the Observer about her chaotic childhood, writing truthfully about her dad, and the books she read to him on his deathbed. Her memoir Naked Portrait will be published by Picador on May 30th.
The prize was awarded at the Laugharne Weekend literary festival. Cragg said: “I know it’s a cliche but I was genuinely happy just to have been nominated for this prestigious prize, so to actually win it is pretty overwhelming.”
Base Notes “documents that lost, last tribe that rarely gets served by contemporary literature – the Northern working class…This is the book I have always threatened to write.”
Edinburgh independent has landed For Emma, “a tale of family bereavement and revenge with a covert AI experiment and its human cost” by Ewan Morrison, winner the Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year.
Michael Cragg’s ‘Reach For The Stars’, Audrey Golden’s ‘I Thought I Heard You Speak’ and Richard Morton Jack’s ‘Nick Drake: A Life’ are among the titles selected for the prestigious prize.