First-timer on James Tait Black shortlist.(Features) From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: May 5, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A FIRST-TIME novelist from Wales has been nominated for Britain's oldest literary award - the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Fifty-two-year-old Gee Williams, who was born and brought up in Saltney, Flintshire, has earned a place on the shortlist for the prestigious prize, where she will compete against four others for pounds 10,000 when it is awarded during the Edinburgh Festival this August.

Her nominated literary mystery, Salvage, is the first ...