Ten titles contend for £10,000 Guardian First Book Award, with subjects covered including everything from the itinerant experience of the Somali community to Churchill's 'black dog.' On the longlist is Basharat Peer's Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir, published by HarperCollins. The book is described by Salman Rushdie as "lyrical, spare, gut wrenching and intimate. It is a powerful and intensely moving debut, combining the insight of a journalist with the prose of a poet. A passionate and important book - a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore." The shortlist for this year's prize will be announced in late October, with the winner revealed at the beginning of December.
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