Many thanks to all who sent in the start of their novel for our Opening Lines contest. There are so many fab novels being written!

We have our longlist – congrats to all who made it and commiserations to those who didn’t!

• A Doorway in Venice
• An Inconvenient Human
• And Then She Fell
• Big Girls Don’t Cry
• Blue Is Not A Colour
• Blessed Women
• Deadboy
• Death in Miniature
• Dog’s Cottage
• Earth In The Sky
• Evermore
• Leaf And Sky
• Lifesaver
• My Name Is Perry
• Scott/Shackleton
• She Lost The Sun
• So Fairly Bound
• Split Fortune
• Sunblock
• The Embrace
• The Gospel of Eve
• The Life Of Our Times
• The Paper Saint
• The Picasso Puzzle
• The Smell of Pearls
• The Scattering

We’ll have the shortlist and results in June – good luck everyone!