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Hattie Morahan

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BBC National Short Story Award 2013

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(5 Shortlisted Titles)

The five shortlisted titles for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 administered in partnership with Booktrust, containing: 'Mrs Fox' by Sarah Hall (read by Andrea Riseborough), 'Barmouth' by Lisa Blower (read by Rebekah Staton), 'Prepositions' by Lionel Shriver (read by Nancy Crane), 'Notes from the House of Spirits' by Lucy Wood (read by Hattie Morahan) and 'We Are Watching Something Terrible Happening' by Lavinia Greenlaw (read by Claire Skinner).

The five shortlisted titles for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013, as heard on BBC Radio 4.

Sarah Hall is the author of four novels including The Carhullan Army, which won the 2006/7 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was listed as one of The Times' 100 Best Books of the Decade. Her first collection of short stories, The Beautiful Indifference, won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2012. 
 
Lisa Blower is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. She won the Guardian’s National Short Story competition in 2009, and her debut novel Sitting Ducks was longlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker 2016, The Rubery Award 2016 and The People’s Book Prize 2016. 
 
Lionel Shriver is best known for her internationally bestselling novel We Need To Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction and was adapted as a hit film starring Tilda Swinton. Her other novels include The New Republic, So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, Big Brother and The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047. 
 
Lucy Wood is the author of the acclaimed short story collection Diving Belles. She has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and won the Holyer an Gof Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. 
 
Lavinia Greenlaw has published five collections of poetry including Minsk (2003), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. Her first novel, Mary George of Allnorthover, was published in 2001 and won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger. Her second, An Irresponsible Age, appeared in 2006. She has also written two works of non-fiction and published and broadcast several short stories.

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