Tindal Street Success with Commonwealth Writers' Prize Shortlistings
Friday, 19th February 2010
Tindal Street Press is very pleased to report that Anthony Cartwright and Mez Packer have both been shortlisted for awards in this year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
Anthony Cartwright’s Heartland has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in the South Asia and Europe region, along side such world-renowned names as Amit Chaudhuri and Aamer Hussein. Described by David Peace as being ‘what fiction should be and what readers want it to be: passionatey engaged,’ Heartland is a richly-imagined work of contemporary fiction, interweaving politics, football and the far-right in a multicultural Black Country town.
Among Thieves, by Mez Packer, has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, again in the South Asia and Europe region. Widely praised as ‘a highly original debut’, this pacey, countercultural literary thriller moves from 2 Tone Coventry in the early 1980s to Spain, Albania and India.
Anthony Cartwright and Mez Packer are no strangers to prize success. Anthony won a Betty Trask award for his 2004 debut novel The Afterglow, while Mez was the October winner of the 2009 People’s Book Prize and also has recently been long listed for the 2010 Authors’ Club First Novel Award.
The finalists from each category will be brought together in Delhi, India, on the 7th April, with the two overall winners of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize being announced on the 12th April.
A new paperback edition of Heartland by Anthony Cartwright will be published by Tindal Street Press on the 13th May 2010.
