Recurring Themes of Trauma, Ownership and Abandonment Dominate Desmond Elliott Prize Longlist 2019

Four of the 10 debut novels are inspired by real-life happenings in the histories of the authors’ families Indies take on the big publishing houses, with Salt longlisted twice alongside titles from Propolis and New Island Books The list features two (Observer) ‘new faces of fiction’: Michael Donkor and Yara Rodrigues Fowler The 10-strong longlist for […]