Gordon Burn PrizeShortlist

Given by Gordon Burn Trust

50 Works 25,160 Books 1,078 Reviews ½ 3.9
Stages:
All, Winner (1), Shortlist (50), Longlist (20), No Stage (9)
Years:
All, 2023 (7), 2022 (1), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (3), 2014 (5), 2013 (4)

Shortlist 50

WorkYear
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll2023
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery2023
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder2023
O Brother by John Niven2023
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan2023
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan2023
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq2023
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet2022
Come Join Our Disease by Sam Byers2021
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan2021
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden2021
Sea State: A Memoir by Tabitha Lasley2021
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa2021
Notes Made While Falling (Goldsmiths Press) by Jenn Ashworth2020
Rainbow Milk: A Novel by Paul Mendez2020
Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr2020
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay2020
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo2020
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker2019
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo2019
This Brutal House by Niven Govinden2019
Lanny by Max Porter2019
Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires2019
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker2018
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne2018
Crudo by Olivia Laing2018
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara2018
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova2017
This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan2017
The Long Drop by Denise Mina2017
This is the Place to Be by Lara Pawson2017
First Love by Gwendoline Riley2017
A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son Investigates His Trailblazing Mother’s Young Suicide by Jeremy Gavron2016
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing2016
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh2016
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker2016
And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain by Adrian Tempany2016
Noontide Toll: Stories by Romesh Gunesekera2015
Original Rockers by Richard King2015
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev2015
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family by Richard Benson2014
The Kills by Richard House2014
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing2014
American Interior: The quixotic journey of John Evans, his search for a lost tribe and how, fuelled by fantasy and (possibly) booze, he accidentally annexed a third of North America by Gruff Rhys2014
The Free by Willy Vlautin2014
How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright2013
The Footballer Who Could Fly by Duncan Hamilton2013
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry2013
Myra, Beyond Saddleworth by Jean Rafferty2013

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