I had high hopes for Walking the Lights by Deborah Andrews. It’s been shortlisted for this year’s The Not the Booker Prize; it’s published by an independent Scottish publishing house that gave us last year’s The Not the Booker Prize winner (Fishnet by Kirsten Innes); it’s set in Glasgow, and its blurb promises that it ‘perfectly evokes 90s Britain and those living on the margins, while others prosper’. A winning combination, I thought.

Walking the Lights: Quite a lot of walking, and not a lot else
The Not the Booker prize 2016 shortlist revealed
After 1,500 votes were cast for nearly 150 books the Not the Booker prize shortlist for 2016 has been announced by The Guardian.