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Guardian First Book Award 2009 Shortlist

30/10/2009

The shortlist for the Guardian First Book Award 2009, in association with Waterstone’s, has been announced.

Click on the titles below to see how the books were received by the critics:

A Swamp Full of Dollars, by Michael Peel (IB Tauris, non-fiction)

The Rehearsal, by Eleanor Catton (Granta, novel)

The Wilderness, by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape, novel)

The Selected Works of TS Spivet, by Reif Larsen (Harvill Secker, novel)

An Elegy for Easterly, by Petina Gappah (Faber, short story collection)

The winner will be announced on Wednesday 2 December.

For more information on the prize click here

You can see the longlist, and read all the reviews, here

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