2017 Booker Prize longlist: Elmet by Fiona Mozley
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2theaelizabet
From the newsletter Shelf Awareness:
English Bookseller's Debut Novel Makes Man Booker Longlist
Among the books by many well-known authors on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize there's an unusual one, the Bookseller noted. The debut novel Elmet, "a book about family as well as a meditation on landscape in South Yorkshire" that will be published only August 10, is by a bookseller. Fiona Mozley, 29, works weekends at the Little Apple Bookshop in York while completing a Ph.D. in medieval studies. She wrote the novel "while commuting on the train," according to her editor, Becky Walsh, at JM Originals, an imprint at John Murray Publishers, a Hachette UK subsidiary.
The bookstore posted this on Facebook: "Fantastic news. The Booker Prize Longlist includes our very own Fiona Mozley, one of our talented Little Apple staff. We read it and loved it. Out in August. Watch this space."
English Bookseller's Debut Novel Makes Man Booker Longlist
Among the books by many well-known authors on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize there's an unusual one, the Bookseller noted. The debut novel Elmet, "a book about family as well as a meditation on landscape in South Yorkshire" that will be published only August 10, is by a bookseller. Fiona Mozley, 29, works weekends at the Little Apple Bookshop in York while completing a Ph.D. in medieval studies. She wrote the novel "while commuting on the train," according to her editor, Becky Walsh, at JM Originals, an imprint at John Murray Publishers, a Hachette UK subsidiary.
The bookstore posted this on Facebook: "Fantastic news. The Booker Prize Longlist includes our very own Fiona Mozley, one of our talented Little Apple staff. We read it and loved it. Out in August. Watch this space."
3sparemethecensor
Quite the backstory! I have added this to my TBR for when it is published.
4japaul22
This sounds appealing. I wonder, though, if the August 10 date is only for the UK? It is frustrating to not be able to gets hands on these books, especially since they've widened the pool of books they are drawing from.
5theaelizabet
It can be order from book depository: https://www.bookdepository.com/Elmet-Fiona-Mozley/9781473660540
However, they show a Sept. 21 publication date.
Amazon UK will have it on Aug. 10.
However, they show a Sept. 21 publication date.
Amazon UK will have it on Aug. 10.
6Simone2
I ordered it on: https://www.bol.com/nl/p/elmet/9200000073970994/?suggestionType=featured_product...
They say the ebook is downloadable already but I don't know for sure as I bought a hard copy, which I will receive on August 10. They do deliver outside the Netherlands as well but I don't know how long that will take...
They say the ebook is downloadable already but I don't know for sure as I bought a hard copy, which I will receive on August 10. They do deliver outside the Netherlands as well but I don't know how long that will take...
7Deern
The e-book is also downloadable from amazon for Kindle, at least in Italy which usually corresponds with the dates for the UK.
8Simone2
Yes, it was a good read. This is the beautifully written story about a boy and a girl, raised by their father in an unconventional way. They build their own house and their father earns his money by fighting other men. The siblings don't go to school but the three of them are happy. Until their luck turns against them.
A good read although I kept wondering when the story is situated. I somehow think I somewhere read it is in the recent past but then again, I can't imagine the things that happen to happen in our time.
A good read but why it is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize I don't know. But maybe I have to be blamed for that because I guess there is a link with Ted Hughes's book Elmet which is lost on me.
A good read although I kept wondering when the story is situated. I somehow think I somewhere read it is in the recent past but then again, I can't imagine the things that happen to happen in our time.
A good read but why it is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize I don't know. But maybe I have to be blamed for that because I guess there is a link with Ted Hughes's book Elmet which is lost on me.
9theaelizabet
>8 Simone2: Interesting. My copy came today.
10Deern
>8 Simone2: Thank you! The test chapter on Kindle didn't leave any impression with me (short and only landscape description), now I'm more curious to read it soon.
11Deern
I'm limping through this book, hardly making any progress. It's beautifully written, but it's a story my mind doesn't want to read or doesn't want to get involved with. Might be the typical yearly getting tired of identifying with too many suffering characters in a short period, though there was far less suffering in this year's LL than in other years. I might have enjoyed it much more if I had read it in August.
Well, still not sure why it was listed, along with another debut telling the story of growing up in a remote place, isolated from other people (History of Wolves). Both books aren't bad at all, but I'm still sad about the lack of African, Australian, NZ authors this year.
Edit: finished it by skimming through the second half. Very powerful book, a great style of writing that makes you feel you're reading something medieval while it's set in the contemporary. But what a plot! One of the books with so much violence I never want to touch it again. It's a direct, inevitable kind of violence, not like reading about a war or some massacre where the reader can build a distance. It reminded me of Mr Pip and Little Bee with their respective scenes of slaughter on the beach. You are forced at gunpoint to be a witness and can only watch through your fingers, unable to stop it. I don't think I can rate this book and now I need to go and find my neighbors' cat to cuddle.
Well, still not sure why it was listed, along with another debut telling the story of growing up in a remote place, isolated from other people (History of Wolves). Both books aren't bad at all, but I'm still sad about the lack of African, Australian, NZ authors this year.
Edit: finished it by skimming through the second half. Very powerful book, a great style of writing that makes you feel you're reading something medieval while it's set in the contemporary. But what a plot! One of the books with so much violence I never want to touch it again. It's a direct, inevitable kind of violence, not like reading about a war or some massacre where the reader can build a distance. It reminded me of Mr Pip and Little Bee with their respective scenes of slaughter on the beach. You are forced at gunpoint to be a witness and can only watch through your fingers, unable to stop it. I don't think I can rate this book and now I need to go and find my neighbors' cat to cuddle.
