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- ↑ "Book awards: Guardian First Book Award", Library Thing.
- ↑ "Book awards: Guardian Fiction Prize", Library Thing.
- ↑ Claire Armitstead (7 April 2016). "Saying goodbye to the Guardian first book award". The Guardian .