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|title=Academy Street | |title=Academy Street | ||
|author=Mary Costello | |author=Mary Costello | ||
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|genre=Literary Fiction | |genre=Literary Fiction | ||
| − | |summary= | + | |summary=It is 1944. Tess Lohan's mother has just died at age 40, of tuberculosis. Seven-year-old Tess is one of six children in a rural Irish family. They live at Easterfield, a centuries-old manor house. A teacher later tells Tess the history of her home: built in 1678, it was a famine hospital in the 1840s; there are numerous corpses buried on the land. He hints there may be many ghosts on the property, but the only one that haunts Tess is her dead mother. 'Memories and traces of her mother must linger all over the house – in rooms and halls and landings. The dent of her feet on a rug. On a cup, the mark of her hand.' |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114181</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114181</amazonuk> | ||
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Revision as of 08:07, 8 December 2014
The category shortlists were announced on 19 November and the individual category winners will be announced on 5 January: they each won £5,000. The overall winner (who will receive £30,000) was announced on 27 January 2015.
Novel Award
First Novel Award
Biography Award
Poetry Award The Whole and Rain-domed Universe by Colette Bryce
My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
The Cartographer Tries to May a Way to Zion by Kei Miller
Children's Book Award
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