Goldsmiths book prize shortlist includes crowd-funded first novel

Six contenders for genuinely inventive fiction award include Paul Kingsnorths The Wake and experimental novels by Will Eaves, Ali Smith and Rachel Cusk

Paul Kingsnorths crowd-funded first novel The Wake will compete with works by Ali Smith and Rachel Cusk for the Goldsmiths prize, a new award for innovation in fiction which recognised Eimear McBride with its inaugural trophy.

Aiming to recognise published fiction that opens up new possibilities for the novel form, and to reward a book that is deemed genuinely novel and which embodies the spirit of invention that characterises the genre at its best, judges have shortlisted six titles for this years award. Chair of judges Francis Spufford said the line-up captures so much of the versatility with which the novel, these days, is being stretched, knotted, rejigged, re-invented.

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