The First Book Award celebrates the wealth of new fiction from the UK and around the world featured in the Book Festival public programme and is voted for by readers and visitors to the Festival.
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The award is given to the best crime novel of the year by a debut author.
Tayari Jones' masterpiece of storytelling is longlisted in the fiction category.
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When she was three Maude Julien became her father's prisoner and was kept hidden from the world for years. In 'The Only Girl In The World' she speaks about how she got out and became the ultimate survivor.
