Rosewater by Tade Thompson has won the 33rd annual Arthur C. Clarke Award, honoring the best science fiction novel first published in the U.K. during the previous year. Thompson received a check for £2,019 (about $2,520) and an engraved bookend.
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The finalists for the 2019 New England Book Awards, sponsored by the New England Independent Booksellers Association, are:
Fiction:
Bunny by Mona Awad
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
Nonfiction:
Black Is the Body by Emily Bernard
Formation by Ryan Leigh Dostie
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
The Not Good Enough Mother by Sharon Lamb
Children's (Birth-11):
Cilla Lee-Jenkins: The Epic Story by Susan Tan
New Kid by Jerry Craft
The Line Tender by Kate Allen
The Stuff of Stars illustrated by Ekua Holmes
Planting Stories by Anika Aldamuy Denise
Young Adult:
Attucks! by Phillip Hoose
Once & Future by Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
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Finalists have been named for the £5,000 (about $6,217) Gordon Burn Prize, which "highlights and rewards work that is fearless and uncompromising in its ambition and execution, often pushing boundaries or challenging readers' expectations." The winner will be named October 10. This year's shortlisted titles are:
For the Good Times by David Keenan
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Lanny by Max Porter
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
This Brutal House by Niven Govinden