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Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards

Saturday 2 November
Hamilton Marquee
6.15PM  /   £9, £7 (C)

Lennoxlove Book Festival is delighted to be hosting, for the first time, The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards. Compered by Sally Magnusson, the event will honour the shortlisted authors in four categories, and will reveal the overall £30,000 prize-winner as voted by the public. The shortlist is: Close Your Eyes by Ewan Morrison (fiction), Empire Antarctica by Gavin Francis (non-fiction), Small World by Richard Price (poetry) and Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson (first book).

Please join us at this starry event to find out who has won.

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  • SMIT AWARD FINALIST - First Book : Kerry Hudson

    Our second finalist is in the category of ‘First Book’ – Kerry Hudson’s Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma (Chatto & Windus) has been universally praised, shortlisted for a number of prizes, it’s been described as a ‘one of the best books of the year’ by the Herald...

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