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Guardian First Book Award LonglistPosted at 4:57PM Saturday 28 Aug 2010 The past vies with the future and poetry with prose on the longlist of the 2010 Guardian first book award, which was announced today. The 10 debut titles in the running for the £10,000 award range from dystopian fiction to popular psychology, and span the globe from Somalia to Finland, Kashmir to Winston Churchill's family home in Kent.The longlist Fiction Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt (Fig Tree) Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman (Sceptre) Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam (Harvill) Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman (Cape) Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed (HarperCollins) Non-fiction Bomber County: The Lost Airmen of World War Two by Daniel Swift (Hamish Hamilton) Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz (Portobello) Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris (Thames & Hudson) Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer (HarperCollins) Poetry The Floating Man by Katharine Towers (Picador)
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