Max Porter’s LANNY longlisted for 2019 Wainwright Prize

The Wainwright Book Prize sponsored by Wainwright Golden Beer. Nature & Travel Writing, in association with the National Trust. A celebration of the outdoors.

 

Lanny by Max Porter

Not far from London, there is a village.

This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present.

Chimerical, audacious, strange and wonderful – a song to difference and imagination, to friendship, youth and love, Lanny is ‘dazzlingly good’ Robert Macfarlane.

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About the author

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Max Porter’s first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, won the Sunday Times/Peters, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and the BAMB Readers’ Award, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. It has been translated into twenty-seven languages. Max lives in Bath with his family.