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8/16/2017

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First, We Make the Beast Beautiful was published locally in March. Bantam Press will publish it in the UK’s Spring 2018. Wilson’s bestselling book I Quit Sugar was published by Bluebird in the UK in 2014. Ngaio Marsh Award 2017 shortlists announced The shortlists for the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Nonfiction Double-Edged Sword (Simonne Butler & Andra Jenkin, Mary Egan Publishing)

The Scene of the Crime (Steve Braunias, HarperCollins) The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie (David Hastings, AUP) Blockbuster! (Lucy Sussex, Text) In Dark Places (Michael Bennett, Paul Little Books) Novel Red Herring (Jonothan Cullinane, HarperCollins) Pancake Money (Finn Bell, self-published) Spare Me The Truth (CJ Carver, Zaffre) Marshall’s Law (Ben Sanders, A&U) The Last Time We Spoke (Fiona Sussman, Allison & Busby)

Best first novel

Dead Lemons (Finn Bell, self-published) Red Herring (Jonothan Cullinane, HarperCollins) The Ice Shroud (Gordon Ell, Bush Press) The Student Body (Simon Wyatt, Mary Egan Publishing) Days Are Like Grass (Sue Younger, Eunoia Publishing).

The winners will be announced at a WORD Christchurch event in October. For more information, click here . Robertson wins 2017 ‘ABR’ Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize UK author Eliza Robertson has won the Australian Book Review ’s ( ABR ) 2017 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Pheidippides’. Dominic Amerena placed second for his story ‘The Leaching Layer’ and Lauren Aimee Curtis came third for ‘Butter’. The three shortlisted stories were published in the August edition of ABR . The judging panel comprised ABR deputy editor Amy Baillieu and authors

Ellen van Neerven and Chris Flynn. For more information, click here .

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