Books that challenge orthodoxy and readers' expectations dominate the shortlist for this year's Guardian first book award, which includes a novel influenced by the African tradition of sung history, and a study of error that argues we should celebrate our ability to get things wrong.
Three novels and two non-fiction works are vying for the £10,000 prize.
The shortlist is as follows
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, by Maile Chapman (Jonathan Cape);
Black Mamba Boy, by Nadifa Mohamed (HarperCollins);
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, by Kathryn Schulz (Portobello Books);
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris (Thames & Hudson)
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
The winner of the prize will be announced on 1 December.
Three novels and two non-fiction works are vying for the £10,000 prize.
The shortlist is as follows
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, by Maile Chapman (Jonathan Cape);
Black Mamba Boy, by Nadifa Mohamed (HarperCollins);
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, by Kathryn Schulz (Portobello Books);
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris (Thames & Hudson)
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
The winner of the prize will be announced on 1 December.
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