The longlist which has been chosen by an independent panel of readers and features 6 male and 4 female writers, established authors and debut writers, small Scottish publishers and large London conglomerates, is released today. http://wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2016/06/longlist-announced-for-mcilvanney-prize.html Even Dogs in the Wild (Orion) Ian Rankin Open Wounds (Luath) Douglas Skelton The Damage Done (Michael Joseph) James Oswald The Special Dead (Macmillan) Lin Anderson In the Cold Dark Ground (Harper Collins) Stuart MacBride Black Widow (Little, Brown) Chris Brookmyre The Jump (Faber) Doug Johnstone Splinter the Silence (Little, Brown) Val McDermid Beloved Poison (Little, Brown) E. S. Thomson A Fine House in Trinity (Sandstone) Lesley Kelly The judges will be journalist, Lee Randall, award-winning librarian, Stewart Bain and former editor of The Scotsman and The Times Scotland, Magnus Linklater. --forwarded by Todd Mason http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2016/07/fridays-forgotten-books-links-to.html http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-monthly-assembly-of-undervalued-and.html http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2016/06/tuesdays-overlooked-av-films-television_28.html ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FICTION_L list, click the following link: https://ccpllists.cuyahogalibrary.net/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=FICTION_L