The longlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize has a whopping 137 books and, as you might guess, is heavy on the lit fic.
A shortlist of ten will be announced in Spring 2008 and the winner will walk off with 100,000 euros. Nice.
Chick lit gets a look-in with Dorothy Koomson's My Best Friends Girl. Also listed are two of my favourites, One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell.
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