A Kilmarnock creator is within the operating for one of many literary world’s greatest prizes.
Graeme Macrae Burnet has been longlisted for the Booker Prize for his newest novel ‘Case Examine’.
That is the second time the creator, a former Grange Academy pupil, has been nominated for the prize after being shortlisted in 2016 for ‘His Bloody Venture’.
Graeme, who now stays in Glasgow, mentioned: “I couldn't be extra thrilled that Case Examine has made it to the Booker longlist.
"To your work to be deemed worthy of being within the operating for such a prize is extremely gratifying; and all of the extra so to do it in partnership with the good Saraband Books.”
Set in London in 1965, Case Examine is the story of an unworldly younger lady who believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has pushed her sister to suicide.
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Intent on discovering the reality, she assumes a false id and presents herself to him as a shopper, recording her experiences in a collection of notebooks. However she quickly finds herself drawn right into a world by which she will be able to not make sure of something.
In Case Examine, Graeme presents these notebooks interspersed with the biography of Collins Braithwaite.
Case Examine was printed in October 2021 by unbiased writer Saraband to common essential acclaim.
The Irish Occasions described it as ‘compulsive studying’ and the Every day Telegraph as ‘indecently entertaining’ of their Books of the 12 months round-ups.
The e book has additionally been longlisted for the Gordon Burn prize and shortlisted for an Australian Ned Kelly award. It was the Bookseller’s Affiliation’s fiction e book of the month in October 2021.
Saraband writer Sara Hunt mentioned: “I'm completely delighted to see Case Examine amongst the ‘Booker Dozen’.
"Graeme has an unusual talent for packing literary excellence and clever, stunning material inside a real page-turner.
“Case Examine is a implausible novel – playful, intelligent, fashionable and witty, with emotional depth, and completely charming. I'm so thrilled the judges have chosen it for this prestigious longlist, and naturally very pleased for Graeme.”
Isobel Dixon, Graeme’s agent, added: “Graeme Macrae Burnet’s dazzling and deviously-clever Case Examine has delighted so many readers around the globe already and it’s an actual pleasure to see the Booker judges nominate it for this 12 months’s longlist.
“I’m so thrilled for Graeme and for Saraband, who've printed with such ardour, and excited that the prize will assist introduce Graeme’s good work to a fair wider readership.”
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