Careless Talk shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award
Wednesday, 13th July 2011
Michael Richardson’s humane, comic novel, Careless Talk, has been listed for the inaugural Rubery Book Award.
The novel – ‘a wonderfully warm and humorous evocation of a late 1940s Birmingham childhood’ (D. J. Taylor) – was one of eight books shortlisted for the award, which accepts fiction and non fiction, prose and poetry.
You can find out more about the Rubery Book Award, as well as what the judges thought of the entries, here.
The Rubery Book Award is currently accepting entries for its Short Story Competition, the closing date for which is September 30 2011. Entries will be judged by Tindal Street writer and University of Wolverhampton lecturer Paul McDonald. For more information about the competition and how to enter, please click on this link.
