Single Sentence Novel wins the Goldsmiths Prize

Solar Bones wins 2016 Prize

The Goldsmiths Prize was founded in 2015 to celebrate creative daring and books that break the mould and are innovative in writing style. A little while ago, back in September the 2016 shortlist was announced for the Goldsmiths prize, and it’s a pretty readable selection of books that have seen critical acclaim this year. We found it difficult to pick a winner, but the judges have announced the Goldsmiths Prize winner 2016.

Today it’s announced that the winner of the prize is Mike McCormack for Solar Bones, a novel written in a single sentence. Solar Bones is set on All Souls Day in November 2008 and the entire dialogue takes place inside the mind of Marcus Conway, a middle aged engineer from County Mayo in the West of Ireland.

Solar Bones US
Solar Bones UK

As described it certainly fits the bill for the Goldsmiths Prize, a prize designed to celebrate the most unusual and innovative work ‘Books that break the mould when it comes to novel writing’. While the entire work is written without any full stops, or sentence endings, it is said to be engaging and enjoyable, covering many themes such as family, art, marriage, duty and more.

Solar Bones was announced as the winner at a ceremony in London on Wednesday night, selected from the six book Goldsmiths shortlist with Mike McCormack picking up the £10,000 prize.

In other circles Solar Bones has received rave reviews and we’re expecting it to go on to be a bestseller.