It’s wonderful when a book lives up to all the praise and prizes. A fascinating story, so confidently told, with thoroughly real characters and agonising moral compromises. Brilliant! ⁦Young Writer Award⁩ ⁦Tom Crewe⁩

Luminous and devastating, 'Close To Home' by Michael Magee is a portrait of modern masculinity shaped by class, trauma, and silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive.

His poignant debut has already brought in a multitude of literary prizes, including being…

ICYMI. Here are our March awards roundup if you can't keep up:

@JhalakPrize, Nero Book Awards, New Writing North's Gordon Burn Prize, dylanthomprize, Young Writer Award, and TheWritersPrize.

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'The process of writing a novel, at least in my limited experience, is a process of small reorientations.' – Michael Magee

Our wonderful shortlistee, Michael Magee, on how he wrote Close to Home.

Read more below 👇
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'I wanted a fresher, larger, more open-air version of 19th-cenury life.'

Winner Tom Crewe spoke to Johanna Thomas-Corr about banned books, subverting Victorian clichés and his love of WrestleMania in yesterday's Times Culture.

Read more here: thetimes.co.uk/article/reveal…

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Still treading air after winning the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award on Tuesday, and wonderful to see my interview with Johanna Thomas-Corr in the paper today. Blimey.

Also in today’s Sunday Times Culture: my interview with the brilliant, once-in-a-generation talent, Tom Crewe, winner of our Young Writer Award.

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London: Tom Crewe Wins the Sunday Times’ Young Writer Award | Porter Anderson publishingperspectives.com/2024/03/london… Sunday Tthe-sunday-times-young-writer-award/ Young Writer Award Tom Crewe | Jury comments calll Tom Crewe's ‘The New Life’ a ‘tenderly sensual account of masculine sexuality.’

🎉 Huge congratulations to Tom Crewe, who has been named the winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award, for his novel ‘The New Life’! 🎉

Read an excerpt of the ‘The New Life’ here:

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'He is a writer of rare promise.” Huge congratulations to Tom Crewe, who has been named the winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award for his debut novel, THE NEW LIFE! 🧡 Young Writer Award rcwlitagency.com/news/tom-crewe…

ICYMI, Tom Crewe has been announced as the 2024 #YoungWriterAward winner with The New Life! 🎉

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A massive congratulations to Tom Crewe, who won the Young Writer of the Year Award for his novel The New Life last night! In conversation with Reader's Digest, he reveals his favourite books📚
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Congratulations Tom Crewe! And what a year!

#TheNewLife first took home The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in June 2023 🎉🥇

An inspiring evening at the Young Writer Award Award Ceremony last night hosted by Johanna Thomas-Corr, with Tom Crewe winning with his novel The New Life 💫 Amazing to see Momtaza Mehri’s poetry collection on the shortlist, as well as Noreen Masud & Michael Magee Congrats to all! 🧡

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So nice to celebrate Momtaza Mehri and Bad Diaspora Poems last night. Huge congratulations to Tom Crewe & Chatto&Windus

Congratulations to the new Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Tom Crewe who joined us on the show last night!
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