![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she fell in love with writing it helped her to engage differently with the world, and she has gone on to be nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. Flight Behaviour has featured on the NY Times bestseller list and is Barbara Kingsolvers most accessible novel yet. ![]() Jacqueline Crooks grew up in Southall, part of London’s migrant community, and was immersed in the gang underworld as a young woman. Jacqueline Crooks has smashed it out of the park with her debut novel Fire Rush, earning herself a spot on the 2023 shortlist.įire Rush explores Black womanhood in an underground club on London’s outskirts as she meets a man, Moose, with whom she falls head over heels for.īut their relationship doesn’t last forever and the novel is a telling of passion, anger and transformation. The first-time novelists shortlisted for the prize are Jacqueline Crooks for Fire Rush, Louise Kennedy for Trespasses and Priscilla Morris for Black Butterflies. And her ability to put these silent, breathtakingly beautiful butterflies at the center of this calamitous and noisy debate is nothing short of brilliant. Why not pop all the books in your basket and judge the winner for yourself? Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks Kingsolver has written one of the more thoughtful novels about the scientific, financial and psychological intricacies of climate change. Those that made the cut in 2023 are predominantly British: four of the list are from the UK, alongside one American and one Irish writer. ![]()
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