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One of the books on this year’s Guardian First Book Award shortlist is from a brand new not-for-private-profit publisher, And Other Stories, established in 2010 with funding from the Arts Council. Down the Rabbit Hole, by Juan Pablo Villalobos (pictured left), is a darkly comic novel about Latin-American drug-dealers. The other titles vying for the £10,000 prize are Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English (Bloomsbury), which was also shortlisted for this year’s Booker; Amy Waldman’s The Submission (William Heinemann), a novel about the tensions arising around the building of a 9/11 memorial; Kashmiri author Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator (Viking); and – the only non-fiction book to make the shortlist this year – American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies (Fourth Estate), a biography of the disease. You can read extracts of all the books with introductions by the authors on the Guardian website.

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Three debut novels are on the 16th Orange Prize shortlist, which was announced this morning (11th April) at the London Book Fair. They are ‘Grace Williams Says It Loud’  by Emma Henderson (Sceptre), ‘The Tiger’s Wife’ by Tea Obreht (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) and ‘Annabel’ by Canadian author Kathleen Winter (Jonathan Cape). The other shortlisted titles are ‘Room’ by Emma Donoghue (Picador), ‘Great House’ by Nicole Krauss (Viking) and Aminatta Forna’s ‘The Memory of Love’ (Bloomsbury). The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced on June 8th.

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