James Tait Black Memorial Prizes じぇーむず・ていと・ぶらっく きねんしょう
Edition 98 (2016)
FictionBiographyDrama
Winners
3 peopleSet in 1990s London, this novel follows a young Irish woman and an older actor in a love story that reveals both growth and damage.
The heat and uncertainty of love build against the backdrop of a vivid city.
320 pages
Londonlovecoming of ageloneliness
An art-history nonfiction book that follows John Snare’s obsession with a lost Velázquez painting and the long pursuit it set in motion.
An obsession with a missing painting changes a bookseller’s life and leads into a larger story of art and ruin.
304 pages
art historybiographyobsessionnineteenth century
A play centered on a Belfast loyalist, drawing out political paranoia and the strain within a family.
In dialogue that mixes humor with paranoia, clashing memories and loyalties are laid bare.
106 pages
playNorthern Irelandpoliticsfamily