Notts Author on Man Booker Prize Shortlist

The Nottinghamshire author Alison Moore, has been shortlisted for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her debut novel, The Lighthouse.

The winner will be announced on the 16th of October, with Hilary Mantel and Will Self the bookmakers' favourites.

According to the judges, ‘the six books all display powerful language and artistry. The themes they have in common include old age, memory and loss.’

Last year's winner, The Sense of An Ending, has since sold over 300,000 copies in the UK.

The Lighthouse by Alison Moore

Published by the small independent press Salt, The Lighthouse is about a man trying to find himself on a walking holiday in Germany, only to become more lost and adrift.
‘Melancholy and haunting,” said Margaret Drabble of this unsettling account of paths not taken.