The shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize has been released. The £10,000 (about $12,690) award honors "outstanding achievements for a debut novelist or nonfiction writer first published aged 50 or over." The winner will be named July 10. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Now I Am Here by Chidi Ebere
The Silence Project by Carole Hailey
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp by Rachel Meller
High Caucasus by Tom Parfitt
Ashes & Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness by Allyson Shaw