A shortlist has been unveiled for the £2,500 (about $3,545) Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, presented by Slightly Foxed and the Biographers' Club. The winner will be announced March 6 in London. The shortlisted titles are:
David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
Young & Damned & Fair: The Life & Tragedy of Catherine Howard by Gareth Russell
The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett by Helen Smith
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilization by James Stourton