Awards: James Tait Black Winners; FT/McKinsey Business Book Longlist

Eimear McBride has won the £10,000 ($12,960) James Tait Black Prize for Fiction for her second novel, The Lesser Bohemians, published in the U.S. by Hogarth. According to the Guardian, judge Dr. Alex Lawrie of the University of Edinburgh called The Lesser Bohemians, in which an 18-year-old Irish girl comes to London in 1990s and falls for an older actor, "astonishing" and "full of wit, energy and nerve, an extraordinary rendering of a young woman's consciousness as she eagerly embarks on a new life in London."

McBride's first novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Goldsmiths prize.

Laura Cumming has won the £10,000 ($12,960) James Tait Black Prize for Biography for The Vanishing Man, about Victorian bookseller John Snare, who believed he had found a lost painting by Velázquez. Dr. Jonathan Wild of the University of Edinburgh, a judge for the biography prize, called The Vanishing Man "a real gem of a book which fully deserves its place among the winners of this prize."

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The longlist of 17 titles for the £30,000 ($38,890) Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year has been released and can be seen here. The shortlist will be announced on September 19, and the winner will be named November 6.

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