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The Society of Authors’ Awards - McKitterick Prize
Camilla Barnes has been shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize of the Society of Authors’ Awards.
Ceremony: 18th June 2026 - 6:55pm GMT
The McKitterick Prize is awarded for a first novel, published or unpublished, by a writer over 40.
Judged by Susmita Bhattacharya, Rebecca Foster, Aamer Hussein, Wenyan Lu, Kathy O’Shaughnessy, Nick Rennison and Tom Vowler.
The shortlisted authors are :
Camilla Barnes for The Usual Desire to Kill (Simon & Schuster, Scribner UK)
Vijay Khurana for The Passenger Seat (Peninsula Press)
Claire Lynch for A Family Matter (Vintage, Chatto & Windus)
Sanam Mahloudji for The Persians (4th Estate, HarperCollins)
Miranda Moore for A Beautiful, Terrible Thing (David Fickling Books)
Patrick Ryan for Buckeye (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Sarah Ballard, Camilla Barnes
The Sunday Times - Relative Values - Caroline Scott - 10th April 2026
Julian and Camilla Barnes - The Booker prizewinner and his niece on how their eccentric family fuels their fiction.
“Camilla's book has freshness, wit, observation, ear. You can't teach that.”
Photo by Nick Bowring for the Sunday Times Magazine
Cette folle envie de tuer - sortie française le 1er avril 2026
Traduction française : Cécile Arnaud
Paperback Edition - out in the UK - 9th April 2026
The Usual Desire to Kill, Paperback Edition.
A jestli se nezabili... - out in the Czech Republic - 1st April 2026
A jestli se nezabili... - out in the Czech Republic, 1st April 2026.
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