In this Place - RSL Ondaatje Prize 2021 Longlist
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The £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize is awarded annually to a book – fiction, non-fiction, or poetry – which best evokes the spirit of a place.
Past winners have included A Portable Paradise in 2020, Nothing is True And Everything Is Possible in 2016 and Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men 2007.
Linked Books

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- In the Country of Men
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- Matar, Hisham

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- Nothing is true and everything is possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
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- Peter Pomerantsev

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- Portable Paradise
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- Robinson, Roger

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- Box Hill
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- Mars-Jones, Adam

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- Imperial Mud : The Fight for the Fens
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- Boyce, James

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- Out of Thin Air : Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia
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- Crawley, Michael

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- The Beauty and the Terror : An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
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- Fletcher, Catherine

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- Big Girl, Small Town : Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award
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- Gallen, Michelle

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- The Butchers
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- Gilligan, Ruth

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- This Lovely City
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- Louise hare

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- Scenes of a Graphic Nature : 'A perfect page-turner ... I loved it' - Dolly Alderton
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- O'Donoghue, Caroline

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- Magnolia
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- Powles, Nina Mingya

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- The Mermaid of Black Conch : A Love Story
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- Roffey, Monique

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- Unofficial Britain
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- Gareth Rees

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- Square Haunting : Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
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- Wade, Francesca