EMBA shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2013 East Midland’s Book Award has been announced.

As expected, Nottingham’s 2012 literary success stories, Alison Moore and Jon McGregor, have both made the list. Moore was shortlisted for the Man Booker award and McGregor won the International IMPAC Dublin award.

The shortlist:

Will Buckingham – The Descent of the Lyre, Roman

John Gallas – Fresh Air, and The Story of Molecule, Carcanet

Graham Joyce – Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Orion

Jon McGregor – This Isn’t the Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You, Bloomsbury

Alison Moore – The Lighthouse, Salt

Neil Roberts – A Lucid Dreamer, The Life of Peter Redgrove, Random House

Jonathan Taylor – Entertaining Strangers, Salt

Mel Read (a co-judge) and trustee John Lucas with shortlisted authors Graham Joyce, Jonathan Taylor, Neil Roberts, Alison Moore and Will Buckingham.

The winner will be announced in the summer.