Ruth Prawer Jhabala
Heat and Dust
John Murray
Authors were insulted that the judges found only two books worthy of shortlisting out of a total of 83 submissions. Thus Ruth Prawer Jhabala’s Heat and Dust had only one runner up – Thomas Keneally’s novel Gossip from the Forest.
Shortlisted author
Thomas Keneally
Gossip from the Forest
Collins
Judges
Angus Wilson (Chair)
Peter Ackroyd
Roy Fuller
Susan Hill
