Voting has commenced for the overall winner of the Scottish Book Awards 2013. TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA by Blake Friedmann author Kerry Hudson has won the First Book award at the Scottish Mortgage Development Trust Book Awards 2013, and is therefore eligible for the overall prize of £20,000.
The winner will be announced on Saturday 2nd November at the Lennoxlove Book Festival. The other finalists are Ewan Morrison in the fiction category, Gavin Francis in the non-fiction category and Richard Price in the poetry category.
Please vote for Kerry to win here!TONY HOGAN... was published in July 2012 by Chatto & Windus and has been shortlisted for eight literary prizes so far, including the Guardian First Book Award. Kerry's second novel, THIRST, will be published by Chatto in July 2014.
Praise for TONY HOGAN...:
'What a brilliant thing to turn the chaos and trauma of a hectic childhood into
a debut novel as colourful, funny, joyful and compelling as this.'
- The Guardian
'This is a remarkable debut novel of love and loyalty, of fierce passion and
scabrous wit.'
- Foyles
'From the (unrepeatable) hilarious first sentence, this
debut sucks you in with its idiosyncratic style... Kerry Hudson's writing is
very funny, and her deft touches give the book a reality that makes it all the
more powerful. Hudson certainly has a bright future.'
- We Love This Book