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Zevin, Kukafka, Reid and more longlisted for Goldsboro Book Glass Bell Award
Books by authors including Gabrielle Zevin, Danya Kukafka and Taylor Jenkins Reid have been longlisted for Goldsboro Books’ Glass Bell Award.
Founded in 2017 by David Headley, the co-founder and m.d. of Goldsboro Books, the Glass Bell is awarded annually to a novel of any genre with “brilliant characterisation and a distinct voice that is confidently written and assuredly realised”.
On the longlist are début novels When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Hamish Hamilton), winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews (Raven Books); Metronome by Tom Watson (Bloomsbury); and The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk (Doubleday) – both picks for BBC2’s “Between the Covers”.
Saara El-Arifi’s The Final Strife (HarperVoyager) is also longlisted, as is Wahala by Nikki May (Doubleday), Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (Phoenix), an Edgar Award winner; and Pandora by Susan Stokes Chapman (Harvill Secker).
Rounding off the longlist is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Chatto & Windus); the Pulitzer Prize-winning Trust by Hernan Diaz (Picador); the second novel from Booker Prize-winner Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo (Picador); and Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Hutchinson Heinemann).
Headley said: “2022’s début game was incredibly strong and so when we started having conversations about putting together our Glass Bell longlist – coupled with established authors putting out some of their best works yet – I knew we had a challenge ahead of us.
“However, my team and I work very closely to make sure that we are all in agreement about what goes on the longlist and once again, I am delighted with the outcome. The aim of the Glass Bell Award is to acknowledge incredible storytelling – and this year is no exception!”
The shortlist will be announced on Thursday 27th July, with the winner – who will receive £2,000 and a handmade glass bell – announced on Thursday 28th September 2023. Last year, Elodie Harper took home the award for The Wolf Den (Apollo), the first in her Wolf Den trilogy. The book was hailed by the judging team for being “rich and immersive”.
