THE SHORTLIST for The Orwell Prize 2017, the award for political writing, has been announced.
Topics on the short list include the legacy of the Easter Rising in Ruth Dudley Edwards;s The Seven and how Hillsborough and how the Premier League changed Britain in Adrian Tempany’s And the Sun Shines Now. The list also includes Citizen Clem by John Bew, All Out War by Tim Shipman, Island Story by JD Taylor, and Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge.
The judges this year are Jonathan Derbyshire of the Financial Times, playwright and author Bonnie Greer, writer and broadcaster Mark Lawson, and writer and critic Erica Wagner. The winner of the £3000 prize will be announced on June 15.
Previous winners include Arkady Ostrovsky (2016), Raja Shehadeh (2008), Alan Johnson (2014) and Andrea Gillies (2010).
theorwellprize.co.uk
SCOTTISH rock band Mogwai have announced their ninth studio album, Every Country’s Sun. It will be released on September 1 via their own Rock Action Records in vinyl, CD & digital formats.
The recording is their first studio album since 2014’s Rave Tapes, and sees them re-united with producer Dave Fridmann for the first time since 2001’s acclaimed Rock Action LP. It was recorded at Fridmann’s Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York. Fridmann also worked with the band on Come On Die Young (1999).
The opening track from the new record, Coolverine, is available to stream and download now.
mogwai.co.uk
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