Hello, I'm Bob, and I have loved following the Polari Prize for the last few years- here is me going through them!

00:00 Introduction and Context for the Prize
02:13 First Book Longlist
05:40 Non-Debut Longlist
08:30 My Reading Plans

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The longlists can be found here: [ Ссылка ]

And also here:

THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE LONG LIST

• Love from the Pink Palace by Jill Nalder • (Wildfire)

• A Visible Man by Edward Enninful • (Bloomsbury)

• The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom • (Muswell Press)

• Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness by Kevin Brazil • (Influx Press)

• Rising of the Black Sheep by Livia Kojo Alour ​• (Polari Press)

• The New Life by Tom Crewe • (Chatto & Windus)

• None of the Above by Travis Alabanza • (Canongate Books)

• Orpheus Builds a Girl by Heather Parry • (Gallic Books)

• In Her Jaws by Rosamund Taylor • (Banshee Press)

• Is This Love? by CE Riley • (Serpent’s Tail)

• No Country for Girls by Emma Styles • (Sphere)

• Some Integrity by Padraig Regan • (Carcanet Press)



THE POLARI PRIZE LONG LIST

• Fire Island by Jack Parlett • (Granta Books)

• A Working Class Family Ages Badly by Juno Roche • (Dialogue Books)

• Other People Manage by Ellen Hawley • (Swift Press)

• All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt • (Jonathan Cape)

• Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart • (Picador)

• Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gale • (Tinder Press)

• The School House by Sophie Ward • (Corsair)

• Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield • (Picador)

• Rookie by Caroline Bird • (Carcanet Press)

• Cells by Gavin McCrea • (Scribe)

• Screen Age by Fenton Bailey • (Ebury Press)

• Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu • (Dialogue Books)

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