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Vintage imprint Chatto & Windus has scored three nominations for the Guardian First Book Award 2013 longlist.
In fiction, We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has been selected; in non-fiction, Sex and the Citadel by Shereen El Feki, and The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz.
Picador secured two nominations in fiction with Burial Rites by Hannah Kent and Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach. Other novels longlisted are The Hive by Gill Hornby (Little, Brown) and The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland).
Meanwhile non-fiction titles 10 Billion by Stephen Emmott (Penguin), Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin (Bodley Head), and The Society of Timid Souls by Polly Morland (Profile) are also on the longlist.
Poetry collection The Shipwrecked House by Claire Trévien from independent publisher Penned in the Margins had already been selected as the readers' choice for the longlist.
The Guardian First Book Award is now in its 15th year. The shortlist is shaped by a panel of judges, chaired by Guardian Review editor Lisa Allardice, and through store-based reading groups in Waterstones, which partners the prize. The other judges are Susie Orbach, Rachel Cusk, Philip Hensher and Paul Mason.
The winner of the £10,000 prize will be announced in November.