Guardian first book award 1999
Not so sniffy
Oliver Burkeman misses the point when he dismisses as "sniffy" the critical response of some climbing reviewers to Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind, winner of the Guardian First Book award, (On top of the world, G2, December 5).
Variety, vitality and bold explorations of identity and form
Final 10 named for book prize
Judging panel announced for Guardian First Book Award 2000
Novelists David Baddiel, Toby Litt and Julian Barnes join Professor Steve Jones and broadcaster Kirsty Young to judge this years Guardian First Book Award. Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, and Louise Collinge, marketing manager of Borders, will also be on the judging panel, which will be chaired by Claire Armitstead, literary editor of the Guardian.
Extract - 'You can't shoot the dogs,' the Englishwoman told the soldiers
Rwanda genocide book takes award
Claire Armitstead on the First Book Award
The beautiful land of death
Ordinary readers have their say
Readers pick top Guardian books
Judges poised as first-time authors excel
When we thought of introducing a First Book Award we were not anticipating the huge range of books that would be sent in - 140 of them, ranging from self-published autobiographies to a guide to practical mask-making.
Woman who secretly wrote novel at work in line for Guardian prize
A young mother who wrote her novel at work "while no one was looking", and an actress who has starred in films by Woody Allen and David Lynch, are in the running for the Guardian First Book Award.
Inside every psychopath is a jazz buff trying to get out
Ventures in the skin trade
Intimacy is full of dangers. Justine Jordan wonders at the horror of humanity in a fine first novel. The Nudist Colony by Sarah May
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